Joseph R. Holt v. Vernon L. Peppersack, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for writ of habeas corpus by a prisoner serving a sentence imposed by a Maryland state court. Appellant contends that he was sentenced under a count of an indictment to which he had pleaded not guilty and for a crime of which he had not been convicted. He was accorded a full hearing by the District Judge, who delivered a lengthy oral opinion finding that his contention was without merit and that in fact he had entered a plea of guilty to the count on which was imposed the sentence of which he complains. This was in accord with holdings of…