Brown v. Pepersack

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

This case arises out of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed herein by Brown, a State prisoner, who is under sentence of death for the first degree murder of a policeman in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland. In his petition, on the stand, and in a statement of contentions filed later in the hearing, Brown raised a variety of points, most of which had theretofore been considered by the State Courts, but which have been again considered by this Court, after giving Brown unlimited opportunity to present evidence on each point and after hearing evidence offered by…