Bell v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

Delaplaine, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. William R. Bell has applied here for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner alleged that in 1954 he pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court of Baltimore to the charge of robbery with a deadly weapon, and the Court sentenced him to the ⁶¹⁹ Maryland State Reformatory for Males for a term not to exceed five years. First, petitioner alleged that he was denied due process of law and equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Petitioner did not present any specific facts showing how his constitutional right had been violated. Where a petitioner for leave to appeal from denial of a writ of habeas corpus does not set forth any facts showing how he has been deprived of constitutional rights, his petition must be denied. Hickman v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction, 203 Md. 668 , 99 A. 2d 730 ; Williams v. Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary, 205 Md. 633 , 109 A. 2d 49 . Secondly, petitioner complained because he was transferred from the Reformatory for Males to the Maryland House of Correction.

He stated that he had been assigned to a regular job in the bakery at the Reformatory and was learning the bakery trade, and that