Jackson v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This purports to be an appeal from an order, passed May 23, 1947, refusing to issue a writ of habeas corpus. The order for appeal was dated May 28th, filed in the lower court June 2d and received in this court June 3d. Chapter 625 of the Acts of 1947, which requires an application to this court “for leave to prosecute an appeal” (Art. 42, sec. 3C), took effect June 1st. Davis v Warden of Maryland House of Correction, 190 Md. 719, 60 A. 2d 180, just decided. Whether this act is applicable to an appeal from an order passed before June 1st is not now material. In either view, appeal was taken or…