Barnes v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This is an application for leave to appeal from a redetermination that the applicant is a defective delinquent.

The applicant, Barnes, was convicted in 1957 in the Criminal Court of Baltimore under Code (1957), Art. 27, Sec. 349, for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and was sentenced to not more than two years in the Maryland Reformatory for Males. In 1958 he was found by a jury to be a defective delinquent and was committed to Patuxent for an indeterminate period.

As a result of a petition for redetermination of his status as a defective delinquent, a hearing was held on June 19, 1961,…