State v. Williams

Smith, Eldridge and Grady, JJ., dissent and Smith, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Grady, J., concurs at page 187 infra. Eldridge, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 195 infra.

This appeal arises from a proceeding to redetermine appellee’s status as a defective delinquent. At the hearing in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, the trial judge (Haile, J.) ruled that a psychologist on the staff of Patuxent Institution (Patuxent), though qualified as an expert witness in his field, could not render an opinion on the ultimate issue, whether appellee was a defective delinquent.1 That…