McGloin v. Warden

This is an application for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner was convicted on July 6, 1956, by Judge Tucker, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, of attempted burglary and larceny, and sentenced to a four-year term on the first charge and eighteen months on the second, to run concurrently. He sought a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Michaelson, in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, on September 23, 1957, contending that the sentence for attempted burglary was illegal, in that it charged a “nonexistent” crime. Judge Michaelson held that the sentence…