JACKSON v. WARDEN

[H.C. No. 41, September Term, 1957.]

215 Md. 597 (1957)

137 A.2d 174

JACKSON v. WARDEN OF MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 24, 1957.


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The applicant was tried and convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on a charge of an attempt to commit a robbery with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. It appears that the fact that he had a prior criminal record was one of the reasons for the sentence imposed.

The ground upon which he sought a writ of habeas corpus was that the evidence at his trial fixed the time...

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