Carolina v. Director of the Department of Parole & Probation

This appeal is by a prisoner who was denied a writ of' mandamus he sought against the Director of the Department of Parole and Probation to compel the allowance against his. sentence of time spent on parole. Appellant was sentenced in June of 1947 to fifteen years for second degree murder. In June 1954 he was paroled. In March 1955 he was convicted of assault and given thirty days in the Baltimore City Jail. By reason of this conviction his parole was revoked. on August 5, 1955, after a hearing at which he appeared, and the Board refused to give him credit for the time he spent in the…