Blakney v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This is the petitioner’s second application for leave to appeal. Blakney v. Director, 230 Md. 610, contains the prior history of applicant’s trouble with the law and present incarceration. The present finding of defective delinquency was made by Judge Manley, sitting without a jury, on November 23,1964.

Applicant makes five charges of error in the trial below. In essence they amount to contentions (1) that bear solely on the weight of the evidence and are not available as grounds for leave to appeal, unless the trial judge was clearly in error see Johns v. Director, 239 Md. 411; (2) that…