State Ex Rel. Byrd v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an appeal, by leave granted by this court (Code, Art. 42, sec. 3C), from an order remanding petitioner for a writ of habeas corpus to custody under sentence of a Prince George’s County trial magistrate to two years in the House of Correction for “manslaughter by automobile”. The question presented is whether a trial magistrate has jurisdiction, under Art. 52, sec. 13 (as amended by the Act of 1945, ch. 845) and especially under the last paragraph of section 13, to try a case of alleged “manslaughter by automobile”. Pending this appeal, the question, though not presented in precisely…