Height v. State

Just a few days prior to June 1, 1954, the petitioner was sentenced to six months’ confinement in the Maryland House of Correction by a Trial Magistrate of Calvert County; and, as a result thereof, he was incarcerated in said institution as of June 1, 1954. After serving some five months, he was duly released, but, failing to display any peculiar or outstanding qualifications for high rank in the “Blue Ribbon Army,” he was arrested for, and convicted of, being drunk and disorderly on five occasions during a twelve-month period. His last conviction was in the Circuit Court after the State had…