State Ex Rel. Renner v. Wright

On November 1, 1945, appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court for Frederick County, Maryland, of the crime of forgery, and sentenced to serve a term of four years in the Maryland House of Correction. On October 22, 1946, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, addressed to Judge Boylan, one of the judges of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, in which he recited his conviction and sentence; that at the time of said conviction he was suffering from stomach ulcers and was very nervous, for which he had been treated by a doctor since 1989; that since his imprisonment he had been able to…