Culley v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application by Samuel L. Culley for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Rollins, J., of the Circuit Court for Cecil County. The applicant was previously denied leave to appeal from a denial of the writ (by Mason, J., of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore), on June 19, 1958. See Culley v. Warden, 217 Md. 660, 143 A. 2d 61 (1958).

The applicant pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County (Taylor, J.), and was sentenced to a term of eight years in the House of Correction.

The applicant, who has filed more than twenty…