Roberts v. Director of Patuxent Institution

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This application for leave to appeal from the denial of an application for relief under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act (Code (1960 Supp.), Art. 27, §§ 645A-645J, the “PCPA”) presents several questions. The applicant, Lloyd R. Roberts, is now held at the Patuxent Institution pending trial and determination of whether or not he is a defective delinquent within the meaning of the Defective Delinquent Laws (Code (1957), Art. 31B, as amended.) Pie was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court for Frederick County on July 18, 1958, on a…