Tippett v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This is an application for leave to appeal from a redetermination of defective delinquency made on September 5, 1963, by Judge William B. Bowie, sitting without a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County.

Charles Mason Tippett, the applicant, pleaded guilty in Feb ruary 1957 to housebreaking, and was sentenced to eighteen months in the Maryland House of Correction. On August 8, 1957, he was adjudged by a jury to be a defective delinquent and committed to Patuxent Institution. Tippett petitioned for a redetermination of his status in 1959 and again in 1962; in 1959 a jury found the…