Bergen v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from denial of a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner is confined under sentence for three years on conviction of burglary. He apparently complains that the indictment (which is not in the record, nor is the commitment nor the docket entries in the criminal case) charged him (in a count other than the one under which he was convicted) with the larceny of ten keys of the value of $2.50 each, whereas the keys were actually of the value of 25 cents each, thus charging as a felony what was actually only a misdemeanor. At the trial he was represented by…