Dorris v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from the denial of post conviction relief.

The petitioner concludes his twenty-one page “petition” for post conviction relief—which is in effect not a petition at all, but a diatribe of what he says are the “tyrannical and dictatorial criminal procedures” under which he was tried— by contending in effect (i) that he is innocent, which is a question that may not be raised in a collateral proceeding [Galloway v. Warden, 221 Md. 611, 157 A. 2d 284 (1960)]; (ii) that his constitutional rights were violated (a) because the evidence was insufficient to…