Kitonis v. Warden, Maryland House of Correction

In this application for leave to appeal from an order of Judge William W. Travers denying the applicant’s petition for post conviction relief it is asserted that the petition for post conviction relief was filed in July, 1963; that it alleged, inter alia, that the applicant’s trial counsel failed to provide him with genuine and effective representation; and that no hearing on the petition was held until June, 1968. It is argued that the applicant “was seriously prejudiced in the proof of his case by the unconstitutional and unreasonable lapse of time between the filing of his petition and the…