Henwood v. Superintendent of Maryland State Reformatory for Males

James B. Henwood requests leave to appeal from a denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Manley in the Baltimore City Court.

The petitioner was convicted of robbery in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and sentenced to not more than five years’ confinement in the Maryland State Reformatory for Males.

He contends (a) that the evidence was insufficient to justify his conviction, and (b) that he was denied due process of law, because the trial judge did not, prior to imposing sentence, ask him if he had any reason to assign why sentence should not be pronounced.(a)

The writ of…