Court of Appeals of Maryland September 16, 1937, [No. 21, October Term, 1937.] (Quenstedt v. Wilson)

lead-opinion

SLOAN, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On May 11th, 1937, Florence Wilson, on behalf of Thomas E. Wilson, filed in the Baltimore City Court a petition for the writ of

habeas corpus,

to obtain his release from the custody of the warden of the Maryland House of Correction (Walter E. Quenstedt), by whom he was alleged to be illegally detained and imprisoned.