Alfred Player v. William F. Steiner, Warden, Maryland House of Correction

This is an appeal from a denial, without a hearing, of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a state court prisoner.

Player was convicted upon a charge of housebreaking, from which no appeal was taken. Later, he filed a petition under Maryland’s Post Conviction Procedure Act, Code 1957, art. 27, § 645A et seq., in which he contended that he had requested his counsel to appeal his conviction, but that he had been denied the opportunity to. obtain new counsel and to take an ap peal by actions of the warden in whose custody he was held. This petition was denied after a hearing in which Player…