Case Name: PRESLEY v. WARDEN OF MARYLAND PENITENTIARY
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1954-12-08
Citations: 205 Md. 660
Docket Number: H. C. No. 18
Parties: PRESLEY v. WARDEN OF MARYLAND PENITENTIARY
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 205
Pages: 660–662

Head Matter:
PRESLEY v. WARDEN OF MARYLAND PENITENTIARY
[H. C. No. 18,
October Term, 1954.]
Decided December 8, 1954.
Before Bruñe, C. J., and Delaplaine, Collins, Henderson and Hammond, JJ.

Opinion:
Hammond, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Cullen of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. The petitioner was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore in May, 1952, of larceny, and was sentenced to the Maryland Penitentiary for five years.
Petitioner bases his right to relief upon three contentions: that there was an illegal search, seizure and arrest; that the police used force and threats to gain incriminating statements from him; and that he was denied counsel.
This Court has repeatedly stated that the legality of a search and seizure may be raised on appeal but cannot be raised on habeas corpus. Sykes v. Warden, 201 Md. 662; Dodson v. Warden, 201 Md. 655; Presley v. Warden, 201 Md. 660; Laslo v. Warden, 204 Md. 663; Barr v. Warden, 200 Md. 657; nor can the legality of arrest—see Spence v. Warden, 204 Md. 661; Lewis v. Warden, 203 Md. 676; Cumberland v. Warden, 205 Md. 646; nor can his allegations that the police used force and threats to gain incriminating statements from him be raised on habeas corpus—see Freeland v. Warden, 193 Md. 696, certiorari denied, 338 U. S. 836, 94 L. Ed. 511. See also Goodman v. Warden, 190 Md. 746, certiorari denied, 335 U. S. 847, 93 L. Ed. 397.
Petitioner's contention that he was deprived of counsel was answered, as was his'contention of unlawful search and seizure without warrant, in his former petition, Presley v. Warden, 201 Md. 660. See also Daisey v. Warden, 203 Md. 653, which states that the petitioner has the burden of showing that for want of the opportunity of counsel, "an ingredient of unfairness operated actively in the process that resulted in his confine ment." Martucci v. Warden, 202 Md. 648; Selby v. Warden, 201 Md. 653.
Application denied, with costs.