State v. Musgrove

The question presented by this appeal is whether the order of court granting habeas corpus and releasing a patient from Patuxent Institution was appealable under the circumstances of this case.

When Frank Harrison Musgrove entered a plea of guilty to a charge of storehouse breaking with intent to steal, the Circuit Court for Montgomery County sentenced him to the Correctional Institution for an indeterminate period of time not to exceed eighteen months from June 12, 1964, and two days later, on its own initiative, ordered him transferred to Patuxent to be examined for possible defective…