Meadows v. State

The appellant came to trial in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County under an indictment charging escape. He pleaded guilty. The court rendered a verdict of guilty and sentence him to a term of one year “to run consecutive with any other sentences you are now required to serve for any prior convictions.”

On appeal from the judgment the appellant contends that:

I The plea of guilty

a. did not “constitute a knowledgeable and intelligent plea”;

b. it precluded the introduction by him of evidence bjr State’s witnesses which could have corroborated the facts alleged by him when he took the stand…