Hamm v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

This is an application for leave to appeal from an order entered by Judge Joseph R. Byrnes, sitting in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, denying relief under the Maryland Post Conviction Procedure Act (the Act) on October 26, 1964, after a hearing thereon.

On May 3, 1963, the applicant, Lloyd Hamm, was tried and convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore before Judge Anselm Sodaro, sitting without a jury, of robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to serve twenty years in the Maryland Penitentiary. At the trial, Franklin Knox, a co-defendant, testified to the applicant’s participation in…