Washington v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction

This is an application for leave to appeal under the PCPA.

The petition was denied by Judge Marbury in Circuit Court for Prince George’s County after counsel was appointed for the applicant and a hearing held upon the petition.

The applicant was indicted on a charge of robbery with a deadly weapon. He was tried before Judge Gray and a jury and was found guilty as charged. On April 30, 1958, he was sentenced to ten years in the Maryland Penitentiary. The applicant in his present petition contends that on April 18 (the date that the indictment was returned) he was not identified as being one of…