Henderson v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

The applicant for leave to appeal, James William Henderson, makes three contentions. The first is that his constitutional rights were violated in his trial in September 1958 as a third time violator of the narcotics law, because his two earlier convictions were revealed to the jury to his prejudice. The second and third are illegal arrest and illegal search and seizure.

In arguing his first point, Henderson relies on Lane v. Warden (4th Cir.), 320 F. 2d 179, in which it was held that, as a constitutional matter, a fair trial on narcotics charges had been precluded in a Maryland court by…