COLLINS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an application by Joseph Leslie Shaffer for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus. He pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary and was sentenced by the Criminal Court of Baltimore to three years in the Maryland House of Correction.
Petitioner contends that he has a speech defect and that actually he pleaded not guilty and that the trial court mistook the plea to be one of guilty...
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