Wheeler v. State

On 20 March 1970 Carlton Matthew Wheeler, 16 years of age, pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County to the robbery with a deadly weapon of Stephen Russell Anderson on 29 November 1969 and to the robbery with a deadly weapon of George William Sullivan on 28 November 1969. The pleas were accepted. On 16 April after receipt of a pre-sentence report, Wheeler was sentenced to 10 years on each conviction, the sentences to run consecutively.

The Circuit Court for Prince George’s County sitting as a Juvenile Court had waived jurisdiction of Wheeler as to each of these crimes on…