State ex rel. Swietkoski v. Swenson

This is an application for leave to appeal from a refusal of a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioners were indicted in the Federal District Court on November 4, 1947, on a charge of possessing and transporting distilled spirits with intent to defraud the United States of taxes, *709tried and convicted on January 19, 1948. Imposition of sentence was deferred “until disposition of cases pending against them in [the] State courts of Baltimore.” Meanwhile, the petitioners were indicted on January 9, 1948 by the Grand Jury of Baltimore City, on a charge of larceny of sugar. On February 6, 1948, they…