Laird v. Director of Patuxent Institution

In this application for post conviction relief, denied by Judge Harlan in the court below, the attack is upon the jurisdiction of the court that committed him to Patuxent, a point not raised in his application for leave to appeal from the determination of defective delinquency denied in Laird v. Director, 234 Md. 604. That the point is properly before us seems clear from Simon v. Director, 235 Md. 626, 629, Blizzard v. State, 218 Md. 384, 388, and Doxzen v. Director, 236 Md. 657. He was sentenced to 3 years for automobile larceny in 1955, and 7 years for robbery in 1956, to run consecutively…