NORTHROP, District Judge.
Percy DeToro was sentenced to death on July 3, 1961, for the knife slaying of his paramour. He had been found guilty of first degree murder after a court trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City.
The issue raised by DeToro in this petition for a writ of habeas corpus is the admissibility in evidence of a written statement made by him shortly after his arrest and while he was being interrogated, the pertinent part of which reads...
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