Wilson v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus. The applicant was convicted of larceny and sentenced by Judge Sayler on December 15, 1947, to serve five years in the Baltimore City Jail. On March 16, 1949 he was convicted by Judge France and sentenced to ten years in the Maryland Penitentiary, “to begin at expiration of sentence now serving”, for attempting to escape. Application for leave to appeal from denial of a writ of habeas corpus was denied in connection with this latter conviction. Wilson v. Warden, 198 Md. 663, 80 A. 2d 897.

The present petition…