White v. Brough

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WATKINS, District Judge.

The petitioner, Eddie White, Sr., was tried and convicted of first degree murder in a one-day trial on June 13, 1961, before Judge Joseph L. Carter, sitting without a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Maryland Penitentiary. No motion for a new trial was entered and no appeal was taken from this conviction and sentence. Petitioner’s first state petition under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act was filed July 26, 1961 and was disposed of on procedural grounds on May 2, 1962 by…