Randall v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Eric Preston Randall filed an application for leave to appeal from an order remanding him to the custody of the Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary. This order was passed by Judge Niles, sitting in the Baltimore City Court, after a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus which had been issued by Judge Nice.

The applicant is serving a sentence of ten years’ imprisonment imposed on January 17, 1953 by the late Chief Judge W. Conwell Smith in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, following Randall’s trial and conviction as an accessory after the fact in a…