Tyson v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from the denial, by Judge Gontrum in the Circuit Court for Balti more County, of a petition for a writ of error coram nobis and a writ of habeas corpus. The petition alleges that a mistake in identity was made, and that the applicant was wrongfully convicted of a crime which he did not commit. He offers to produce a picture of the man who, he alleges, committed the crime.

The writ of coram nobis has been fully discussed in the cases of Keane v. State, 164 Md. 685, 166 A. 410, and Bernard v. State, 193 Md. 1, 4, 65 A. 2d 297, 298. In the last mentioned…