Jones v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application by William Jones, Jr., for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Chief Judge John B. Gontrum, of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.

Petitioner was tried and convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon, larceny, burglary, and assault with intent to murder, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore and sentenced to forty years in the Maryland Penitentiary.

Petitioner contends that a gun, which was found in his house due to an illegal search, was offered in evidence against him. The alleged illegality of a search can be raised on appeal but not on habeas…