Banks v. Warden

When the Criminal Court of Baltimore (Cullen, J.) denied his petition for post conviction relief, Monroe J. Banks (the applicant) applied to this Court for leave to appeal.

The applicant, who was represented by counsel at the trial — [as he was at a second post conviction hearing afforded him when the decision in Byrd v. Warden, 219 Md. 681, 147 A. 2d 701 (1959), came to the attention of Judge Cullen] — pleaded guilty to an indictment in which he was charged with having violated the narcotic laws of this State a second time, and was sentenced by the trial court (Tucker, J.) to seven years in…