On April 2, 1962, Norfleet Sawyer, the applicant for leave to appeal, and an accomplice, Ricardo Cortez Espin, were convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon (having bludgeoned a cab driver with a hammer and made off with about twenty-five dollars) by Judge Manley, sitting without a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and each was sentenced to twenty years in the Maryland...
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