Wagner v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of the writ of habeas corpus by Judge Moser of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. The petitioner was convicted of sodomy in 1953 by the Circuit Court for Allegany County and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. ”

The petitioner grounds his application on these points: 1, that he was illegally arrested; 2, that when he had been in jail five days, three bench warrants for his arrest were signed but not actually issued until four days later; 3, that he was illegally in custody for nine days; 4, that although he was accused of a…