Williams v. Warden

On March 13, 1952 James Williams, the applicant for leave to appeal from a denial by Judge Mace of his petition for relief under the Post Conviction Procedure Act (the applicant), was convicted of rape in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, after a plea of guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Maryland Penitentiary. The applicant has sought post conviction relief in either Maryland or the federal courts some thirteen times in the thirteen years since his conviction. In many of his prior petitions for relief he has had the bene fit of counsel and relief was denied after a full…