Weeks v. State

MARDEN, Justice.

On appeal. Petitioner sought post-conviction relief under the provisions of 14 M.R.S.A. § 5502 et seq., indigency was established and counsel was appointed by the Court. Upon hearing before a single Justice, relief was denied, followed by appeal.

The petitioner while on parole from a sentence to the Reformatory for Men (now Men’s Correctional Center) was charged by indictment that he “being then and there armed with a dangerous weapon, to-wit; a gun then and there loaded with powder and leaden bullets, did feloniously assault one Edward L. Pennell with intent him the said…