Scott v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

James Andrew Scott, the applicant for leave to appeal, was denied relief by Judge Evans on an application filed under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act. He was sentenced by Judge Michaelson in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to eighteen years imprisonment for murder in the second degree. By the present proceeding Scott seeks his release or a belated appeal. In connection with the latter he seeks a copy of the transcript of the record of his trial.

Scott was tried before Judge Michaelson and a jury in the above Court on January…