Tyson v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from a refusal of a writ of habeas corpus. The applicant was found guilty in 1938 by a jury under an indictment charging murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was represented by counsel appointed by the court. A previous application for leave to appeal was denied by this court, Tyson v. Warden, 198 Md. 652, 80 A(2) 613. The application in that case sought both a writ of error coram nobis and a writ of habeas corpus.

Most of the assignments of error in the present application duplicate assignments considered in the previous case. In general…