Salinger v. Superintendent

In 1950 the jury found the appellant, Dolfi Salinger, insane at the time of the offenses and at the time of trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, where he was being tried for various crimes of violence, including robbery with a deadly weapon. The court committed him to Spring Grove State Hospital as authorized by Code (1951), Art. 59, Sec. 7. At the trial, three of the four doctors who testified said that Salinger was not able to distinguish right from wrong or to understand the nature and significance of his acts—in other words, that he was insane under the McNaughten rule established as…