McElroy v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This is an appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus.

The appellant, Billy Ray McElroy, was arrested on the night of March 30, 1955, while attempting to break into a lunchroom on West Camden Street in Baltimore City. He pleaded guilty to an indictment in three counts charging in the first count that he “* * * unlawfully, with the malicious intent then and there unlawfully to break the storehouse of Charles E. Bieckert, there situate at Four hundred and eight West Camden Street, in said City, and feloniously to steal, take and carry away the goods and chattels therein found, * * * did…