Carroll v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge E. Paul Mason, of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.

The petitioner was tried on May 11, 1949, on two indictments, one of which charged robbery and the other charged murder. He was tried under both indictments at the same time and was found not guilty of robbery but guilty of larceny, and not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. He received a sentence of five years for larceny and ten years for manslaughter, the sentences to run consecutively.

The petitioner contends that the indictments were…