Crisp v. Director of Patuxent Institution

The applicant for leave to appeal, after a redetermination of his status as a defective delinquent in Baltimore County, requested the appointment of counsel to prosecute his request for leave to appeal as an indigent. The request, under oath and addressed to the clerk of the court, was headed “notice of appeal.”

The clerk, probably through inadvertence, did not present applicant’s request to the judge, who presided at the redetermination of the question of defective delinquency. He did, however, acknowledge the request, and informed the applicant that it would be treated as an application for…