Rice v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal by Philip R. Rice from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner was found guilty by Judge Carter in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on December 14, 1956, in three cases of accessory to a crime of robbery with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to twenty years in each case to run consecutively.

Petitioner claims there was no evidence to connect him with the crime charged, and that he was “framed” by the police and did not have a fair trial. It has been stated many times by this Court that the sufficiency of the evidence can be reviewed only on…