Jacobs v. Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary

In October 1961 Nathaniel J. Jacobs pleaded guilty to armed robbery and was sentenced to twenty years in the Maryland Penitentiary. No appeal was taken. On April 26, 1962, he filed a petition under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act (the Act) in which he set forth the following grounds for relief: (1) his arrest was illegal, having been made without a search and seizure warrant; (2) he was not allowed to contact his family or counsel promptly after his arrest; (3) he was not identified by any witness as having participated in the robbery ; (4) no State’s witness claimed he saw a…