Plater v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Gray, in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Petitioner was convicted and sentenced to ten years in the House of Correction, from December 17, 1955, by Judge Byrnes, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, on a charge of robbery with a deadly weapon. In his application to Judge Gray he stated that he was indicted jointly with one Lester, that the same attorney who had been employed by Lester and appeared for him, was appointed by the court to represent the petitioner, that the attorney…