Allen v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of the writ of habeas corpus by Judge Raine of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.

The applicant was sentenced January 12, 1956, in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County for violation of the laws regulating the manufacture of alcoholic beverages. The applicant was sentenced to pay a fine of $3,000.00 and to be confined in the Maryland Penitentiary for the term of three years, confinement to be suspended upon the payment of fine and costs.

Claimant asks that habeas corpus be granted because his sentence was in the alternative, he was…