State Ex Rel. Hobbs v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

The petitioner in this case had a hearing before Chief Judge Smith of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore on his petition for habeas corpus, and the testimony appears in the record. He was remanded after the hearing and from that action asks leave to appeal.

He is serving a sentence in the Maryland Penitentiary for twenty years for robbery with a deadly weapon. He was received there on January 7, 1947. According to the records in the Institution he has had twenty-eight applications for writs of habeas corpus or writs of error coram nobis, including five to the United States District Court of…