Conley v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from the refusal of a writ of habeas corpus. The prisoner was-convicted of perverted sexual practice by a jury in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, and sentenced to three years in the Maryland House of Correction. He was represented by counsel appointed by the Court..

It is shown by the record that the applicant was indicted (1) for rape, (2) for perverted sexual practice and attempted perverted practice in separate counts, and (3) for sodomy. He was acquitted on the first and last indictments, convicted upon the first count of the second…