Henry v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County dismissing the petition of the applicant for post conviction relief.

The applicant—who was convicted before a trial magistrate of Dorchester County with having possession of apparatus for the unlawful manufacture of alcoholic beverages and sentenced to the House of Correction for eighteen months from June 11, 1959—filed a petition in forma pauperis in the circuit court of the county in which he was convicted, as he had a right to do under Code (1959 Cum. Supp.), Art. 27, sec. 645 C, to set aside…