Randall v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Henderson, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of ⁶⁵⁴ a writ of habeas corpus. It is alleged in a letter and petition, filed on petitioner’s behalf by his mother, Mrs. Lena V. Part-low, that he is twenty-nine years of age and was convicted as accessory after the fact in a murder case, tried before a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and sentenced to ten years in the Maryland Penitentiary in 1953, by Judge Con-well Smith. He was acquitted of the murder charge.

The application for habeas corpus was addressed to Judge Horney, in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County. The twenty-one grounds for the writ fall into three general categories: allegations of innocence, alleged errors committed during the trial, alleged improper treatment by the Warden. Judge Horney considered each point in a careful opinion, and found that many of them could not be raised on habeas corpus, and that none of them added up to a deprivation of constitutional rights. We agree.

Moreover, most of the contentions were considered by us in a prior application for leave to appeal. Randall v. Warden, 208 Md. 667 . We have repeatedly held that complaints as to prison management cannot be considered on habeas corpus. Application denied, with costs.