Hooper v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from refusal of a writ of habeas corpus. Jackson v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction, 190 Md. 717, 60 A. 2d 179, just decided.

Petitioner is imprisoned under sentence of eighteen months for larceny of a watch from his “girl friend”. He alleges that he “gave” her the watch, and (he apparently admits) took it from her “after he caught her wrong”; that she testified she bought the watch, and the justice refused him a postponement to get proof that he bought it in New Jersey; that the justice in sentencing him asked Where he came from, was told from…