Mead v. State

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

In 1961, Edward Mead and two code-fendants, Henderson and Shott, were convicted of two counts of burglary. Thereafter, the three filed a notice of appeal and a petition for leave to appeal in forma pauperis. Exercising its discretionary power under Alaska’s then applicable procedural rule, the superior court denied the petition to proceed in forma pauperis, and the appeal was not prosecuted. In 1969, Mead filed an application for post-conviction relief. 1 The superior court denied Mead’s application on condition that he request this court to grant him an extension of…