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211 Md. 621

125 A.2d 672

Docket [H.C. No. 32, October Term, 1956.]

Williams v. Warden

WILLIAMS v. WARDEN OF MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided October 9, 1956.

Court of Appeals of Maryland · decided 1956-10-09

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1972

4 state decisions

Relies on Agner v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

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Decided 1956-10-09

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¶1Before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.

¶2HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶3This is an application for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner was convicted on July 27, 1953, of larceny and housebreaking and sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary. He complains that the trial court made "disparaging remarks" in charging the jury, and there was insufficient evidence to convict him. As we have repeatedly said, it is not the function of a court, on application for habeas corpus, to review alleged errors or irregularities, which can be reviewed on appeal, and do not go to the fundamental jurisdiction to try the accused. Nor can the question of jail time, as a credit against sentence, be reviewed in such a proceeding. The whole matter is within the discretion of the judge imposing sentence. See Agner v. Warden,203 Md. 665.

¶4Application denied, with costs.

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