Woodfork v. State

On July 17, 1967 appellant pleaded guilty generally in the Criminal Court of Baltimore to a three-count indictment charging violation of the narcotics laws 1 and of being a second offender under an addendum to the indictment. Prior to imposition of sentence, counsel for the appellant drew the court’s attention to the provisions of Section 306B of Article 27 of the Maryland Code (1967 Repl. Vol.), which authorized the court to suspend sentence imposed on a narcotics violator, including a second offender, and refer him to a hospital or other appropriate institution for the treatment of narcotic…