Young v. Warden of the Maryland Penitentiary

In October 1957 John Austin Young, the applicant for leave to appeal, was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. He did not appeal his conviction, but in 1957 and, subsequently, in 1958 filed applications for writs of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, both of which were denied. He applied to this Court for leave to appeal the denial of the latter petition, and we refused his application. Young v. Warden, 218 Md. 636. On March 6, 1959, Young filed a petition under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act, which was denied by Judge…