Beard v. State

Brunií, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant, Beard, was tried in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on December 5, 1952, for violation of the narcotics law, was found guilty by the jury on four counts of the indictment against him and was sentenced on December 17, 1952, to fifteen years’ imprisonment. He sought to appeal within the time allowed by law, but for some reason not fully explained there was delay on the part of the prison authorities in censoring and forwarding Beard’s appeal. He later filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which, after our holding in Beard…