Ramsey v. State

WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.

This appeal from the dismissal of a petition for post-conviction habeas corpus brought under 14 M.R.S.A. Sec. 5502 is denied.

The petitioner in September 1963 in the Cumberland County Superior Court was convicted by a jury on two charges of taking indecent liberties with two young boys, aged eight and ten years. He is presently serving his sentence in the State Prison.

First: The petitioner in his petition charged error in that the first count of the two count indictment did not conclude with the words “against the peace of said State, and contrary to the form of the…