Tillett v. Warden

The applicant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus based upon the contention that the sentence under which he is confined was illegal. His petition was denied by Judge S. Ralph Warnken, sitting in the Baltimore City Court, and the applicant seeks leave to appeal.

The applicant pleaded guilty to a charge of an attempt to^ break and enter into a storehouse (in this instance a supermarket). The offense which was attempted constitutes statutory burglary (Code (1951), Art. 27, Sec. 38), and an attempt to commit such an offense constitutes a common-law misdemeanor. Hochheimer, Criminal Law…