Johns v. Director of Patuxent Institution

Upon his plea of guilty to a charge of breaking and entering, applicant Johns was sentenced to serve eighteen months in the House of Correction and was simultaneously referred to Patuxent Institution for evaluation as to possible defective delinquency. In 1964 Chief Judge Manley found him to be a defective delinquent; from the order committing him1 to Patuxent, Johns seeks leave to appeal to this Court.

Two of the applicant’s four contentions are that the finding of the lower court was against the weight of the evidence, and that the evidence showed that Johns “was prepared to re-enter…