William J. Sansbury v. Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary

Petitioner is a prisoner of the state of Maryland, completing a sentence for violation of probation following convictions for forgery. He unsuccessfully sought a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. The point he seems to have raised below and to press on this appeal is that the Maryland court which committed him had no jurisdiction over him. While on state probation he was arrested and convicted in a federal court for transporting forged securities across state lines. After serving six years of the ten year sentence imposed for the federal…