State Ex Rel. Jacobs v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from denial of ¿ writ of habeas corpus. On November .10, 1932 petitioner, who was represented by counsel, withdrew a plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty of murder, was determined by the court to be guilty of murder' in the first degree, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The next day he was committed to Crownsville State Hospital. After about two years he was returned to the Penitentiary. In 1944 he filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis, apparently on the ground that he was convicted while insane; in 1945 the petition was…