Leek v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of the writ of habeas corpus by Judge Warnken, of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. Petitioner was convicted in the Circuit Court for Washington County, upon appeal noted from a trial magistrate, of assault upon Robert D. Kline, a guard at the Maryland State Reformatory, for Males. The docket entries show that he pleaded guilty and was sentenced on November 27, 1950, by Judge George Henderson, to two years in the House of Correction, sentence to begin at the expira tion of his then term of confinement. He is now serving the sentence…