Davis v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This purports to be an application under section 3C of Article 42 as “enacted” by Chapter 625 of the Acts of 1947, for “leave to prosecute an appeal” from an order, passed May 19, 1947, refusing to issue a writ, of habeas corpus. Jackson v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction, 190 Md. 717, 60 A. 2d 179, just decided. The application was dated May 23rd, filed in the lower court May 31st and received in this court June 3d.

The Act of 1947 took effect June 1, 1947. As this application was filed in the lower court, where an. appeal should be entered, before the Act of 1947 took’ effect, no…