Edwards v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is the second application for leave to appeal from a denial of post conviction relief. Petitioner was indicted in 1956 on six indictments for robbery with a deadly weapon. After counsel had been appointed, he pleaded guilty to four of the indictments, stood trial and was convicted on one, while the State stetted the sixth. He was sentenced by Judge Carter to 20 years on each of the five indictments on which he was convicted, three to run consecutively and two concurrently, a total of sixty years. He took no appeal. In his first petition for post conviction relief he raised a number of…