Archer v. Director, Patuxent Institution

The petitioner, together with two co-defendants, Billy Eugene Sellars and Gary Jeffrey Grant, was convicted on December 11, 1963, in the Circuit Court for Howard County of breaking and entering and grand larceny and sentenced to serve six years in the Maryland House of Correction. A motion for a new trial was filed in his behalf by his attorney and was denied. He took no direct appeal to the Court of Appeals, of Maryland. However, a co-defendant, Billy Eugene Sellars, filed an appeal in the Court of Appeals and his conviction was reversed. Sellars v. State, 237 Md. 58. The other co-defendant,…