Bunn v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

Charles Edward Bunn was convicted of larceny of an automobile by Judge Harris in the Criminal Court of Baltimore and sentenced to five years in the Maryland House of Correction. No appeal was taken. On February 17, 1965, Bunn filed a petition under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act, and relief was denied by Judge Cullen.

The facts of the case are as follows: A police officer from the Millville, New Jersey, Police Department was at the location where the stolen car was stuck in the mud on the side of the road when the petitioner, a friend, and the friend’s seventeen-year-old son drove…