In Re Hamill

On October 17, 1969, Leigh Ann Hamill, age 17, a boarding student at a private high school in Cecil County, sold two bags of marihuana to an undercover police officer, Trooper Tommy L. Bays of the Maryland State Police, as a result of which Bays petitioned the court to find Leigh a delinquent child under Maryland Code (1969 Supp.) Article 26, Sections 70 through 70-26. At the juvenile hearing held January 30, 1970, Leigh, through her counsel, advised the court that the facts in the juvenile petition would not be contested. On this foundation the court found Leigh a delinquent child. It then…