Washington v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

On April 30, 1958, after a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, petitioner Ernest Lee Washington was found guilty under an indictment in Criminal Trial No. 3019 for armed robbery, and was sentenced to fifteen years, the sentence to be served concurrently with a five-year term previously imposed on April 8, 1958, in the same court in Criminal Trial No. 2918, which was a completely separate case and involved an assault with intent to rob with a deadly weapon. An appeal was noted by Washington in No. 2918 but then dismissed by him, and no appeal was taken from the judgment…