Plater v. Warden

This is an application for leave to appeal from an order denying a petition under the Post Conviction Procedure Act. The petitioner’s contentions are fully discussed and refuted in an elaborate opinion by Chief Judge Niles in the court below. We deem it necessary to comment upon one point only, because it has some elements of novelty and was strongly pressed in the court below by court-appointed counsel for the petitioner.

The petitioner was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to ten years in 1955. He contends that the counsel appointed by the court had previously been…