West v. Director of Patuxent Institution

Applicant was convicted of breaking and entering, and larceny in November of 1963, and was sentenced to five years’ confinement. While still an inmate of a state penal institution, .he was tried by Judge Childs and a jury and found to be a defective delinquent.

He raises six questions: (1) that his “statutory right” to a prompt hearing was violated; (2) that the delay deprived him of his right to a parole hearing; (3) that his defective-delinquent hearing should not have been heard because a habeas corpus petition was pending; (4) the same as (3) although couched in different terms; (5) that…