In 1947 Joseph Hobbs was sentenced by the Criminal Court of Baltimore to imprisonment in the Maryland Penitentiary for 20 years. In 1949 he applied to Chief Judge Smith for a writ of habeas corpus. After a hearing he was remanded to the custody of the Warden of the Penitentiary. He then applied for leave to appeal from that order, but the Court of Appeals on January...
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