Nance v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

The petitioner Nance was tried and found guilty on an indictment charging only that he was a rogue and vagabond and was also tried and found guilty generally on three other indictments, each of four counts, charging, respectively, burglary from a storehouse, larceny of more than $500, being a rogue and vagabond, and receiving stolen goods. Judge Cullen gave the petitioner a one-year suspended sentence in the rogue and vagabond case, ten years on two of the other indictments to run concurrently, and four years on the third indictment to run consecutively to the first two. In 1958 Nance filed…