Mapp v. State

SPECTOR, Judge.

This is an original habeas corpus action by which petitioner seeks to be afforded a belated appeal under the rule of Hollingshead v. Wainwright, Fla., 194 So.2d 577.

In 1965, petitioner was charged with murder in the second degree by shooting one Leonidas G. York with a pistol. After a jury trial in Bay County, Florida, petitioner was convicted of a lesser crime, manslaughter, and sentenced to serve fifteen years in prison. Mapp was represented at the trial by Honorable W. Fred Turner, a distinguished criminal lawyer in that community.

The judgment and sentence herein was entered…