Hammond v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This is an application for leave to appeal from an order of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, dated June 4, 1962, finding the applicant to be a defective delinquent, after a hearing before Judge Byrnes, sitting without a jury, and committing him to the Patuxent Institution as a defective delinquent. This application is filed under the provisions of Code (1962 Cum. Supp.), Article 31B, § 11.

In his application he makes the following contentions: 1, that the State suppressed or withheld material evidence; 2, that his representation by counsel, before, during and after his trial, was utterly…