Albert Wesley Charles v. E. L. Maxwell, Warden, Ohio Penitentiary

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio denying the petition of petitioner-appellant for a writ of habeas corpus. The district judge dismissed the petition for the reason that it failed to show in any way legal grounds for release.

The appellant was convicted of armed robbery in a trial before a petit jury in the Common Pleas Court of Scioto County, Ohio, in 1961. He was sentenced to the Ohio State Penitentiary where he is still confined. It is this confinement of which he complains. He was represented at the trial by counsel…