Mooney v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application by John Elsworth Mooney for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Raine, J., of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.

The petitioner was tried and 'convicted of robbery in the Criminal Court of Baltimore (Tucker, J.) and sentenced to seven years in the Maryland House of Correction.

Judge Raine properly ruled that the petitioner was not entitled to have the question of his guilt or innocence retried on habeas corpus, and that the sufficiency of the evidence to justify conviction may not be reviewed on a petition for the writ.

However, Judge Raine…