Harriday v. State

The appellant, Sterling James Harriday, was convicted of receiving stolen goods under the fourth count of a four count indictment by Judge Men chine sitting without a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, and was sentenced to the Maryland Institution for Men for a term not to exceed three years. He contends on this appeal that his trial was completely void because his representation by trial counsel was so inadequate as to amount to a deprivation of due process of law.

To support this contention the appellant’s counsel on appeal (who was not counsel below) complains that trial…