Case Name: RAMBERG v. SUPERINTENDENT OF SPRING GROVE STATE HOSPITAL
Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1958-05-27
Citations: 217 Md. 652
Docket Number: H. C. No. 114
Parties: RAMBERG v. SUPERINTENDENT OF SPRING GROVE STATE HOSPITAL
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland Reports
Volume: 217
Pages: 652–653

Head Matter:
RAMBERG v. SUPERINTENDENT OF SPRING GROVE STATE HOSPITAL
[H. C. No. 114,
September Term, 1957.]
Decided May 27, 1958.
Before Bruñe, C. J., and Henderson, Hammond, Prescott and Horney, JJ.

Opinion:
Henderson, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
In this application for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus, it appears that petitioner was convicted and sentenced on a charge of drunken driving, and efforts to obtain a release were denied. Ramberg v. Warden, 209 Md. 631. He was transferred to Spring Grove State-Hospital and his sentence expired on October 29, 1957. However, prior to that date, on October 25, 1956, he was committed on certificate of two doctors, and is now being detained under Code (1957), Art. 59, sec. 31. As we have repeatedly held, there is no right of appeal in a habeas corpus case unless the confinement is a result of prosecution for a criminal offense. Code (1957), Art. 42, sec. 7; Miller v. Superintendent, 198 Md. 659, and cases cited. His present detention is not of that character.
Application denied, with costs.