Price v. Warden of Md. Penitentiary, 11
| Decision Date | 13 May 1959 |
| Docket Number | No. 11,11 |
| Citation | 151 A.2d 166,220 Md. 643 |
| Parties | Charles PRICE, Jr. v. WARDEN OF MARYLAND PENITENTIARY. Post Conviction Application |
| Court | Maryland Court of Appeals |
Before BRUNE, C. J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.
Charles Price, Jr., seeks leave to appeal under the Post Conviction Procedure Act from the denial of his petition by Judge Byrnes after counsel had been appointed and a hearing held.
The petitioner was tried and convicted by Judge Carter, sitting without a jury, of attempted robbery with a deadly weapon and receiving stolen goods. A twenty-year sentence was imposed on the attempted robbery count, and eighteen months on the receiving count, to run concurrently. Price did not appeal but later unsuccessfully sought to come to this Court after he had been denied the writ of habeas corpus by Judge Raine of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. Price v. Warden, 215 Md. 627, 137 A.2d 666.
Petitioner predicates his leave to appeal upon the following allegations: (1) the magistrate before whom he was arraigned should have disqualified himself because he was the father of one of the complaining witnesses; (2) the trial court was biased; (3) the testimony given before the magistrate and at the trial as to the precise hour the robbery occurred was inconsistent; (4) the police records which would bear out this inconsistency were destroyed; (5) the identification of him by the State's witness was 'encouraged' by police; (6) after petitioner had dismissed his counsel during the trial, the judge conducted the remainder of the trial unfairly; (7) he had an alibi; and (8) the twenty-year sentence was excessive.
None of petitioner's contentions entitle him to relief under the Act, which, as Sec. 645A of Art. 27 of the Code (1958 Supp.) spells out, deals with unlawful or unconstitutional judgments or sentences, those beyond the jurisdiction of the court, those exceeding the maximum authorized by law, and those 'otherwise subject to collateral attack upon any ground of alleged error heretofore available under a writ of habeas corpus, writ of coram nobis, or other common law or statutory remedy.'
The first claim, that the committing magistrate was biased, now cannot help petitioner. After conviction, allegations of irregularities in the preliminary proceedings or procedures will not be heard under the Act any more than in habeas corpus cases. Hall v. Warden, 214 Md. 652, 135 A.2d 895; Wilhelm v. Warden, 209...
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