Barnes v. Warden

Applicant seeks leave to appeal from a denial of what he called a writ of certiorari but which Judge McLaughlin of the Circuit Court for Washington County treated as a petition for the writ of habeas corpus. The applicant was serving a two year sentence from July 16, 1954, at the Maryland House of Correction, when on February 9, 1955, he escaped. After his recapture, he was sentenced by the Criminal Court of Baltimore for crimes he committed while at liberty — vis., being a rogue and a vagabond and assault — to twenty-four months in addition to the balance of the sentence from which he had…