James G. McCloskey v. Dr. Harold M. Boslow, Director, Patuxent Institution

J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court which denied the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus without an evidentiary hearing.

On September 20, 1962, the petitioner, James G. McCloskey, was determined by a jury in the Circuit Court for Cecil County, Maryland, to be a defective delinquent. 1 From the trial court’s order committing him to the Patuxent Institution, he filed a pro se application for leave to appeal with the Maryland Court of Appeals. 2

This application was construed by the court as raising four points about the defective…