PRESCOTT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
Richard Melvin Dyer has made application to appeal from a denial of his petition for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Sodaro in the Baltimore City Court. He was convicted of murder in the second degree on March 12, 1957, in the Circuit Court for Talbot County, and sentenced to serve five years in the House of Correction.
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