Goodman v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Per Curiam,.

This is an application for leave to appeal from refusal of a writ of habeas corpus.

The petitioner was convicted of murder in the first degree, without capital punishment, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City. He was tried by the court, without a jury.

In his petition for the writ, and in his brief filed in this court, his chief complaint is that the lawyer the court appointed to defend him would not permit him to be tried before a jury; would Pot ask questions on direct and cross examination, which he requested him to ask; and that some of his witnesses did not appear at the…