Towers v. Director

Elwood Towers, Jr., also known as Elmore E. Towers, was convicted on June 8, 1971, in a non-jury trial in the Circuit Court for Caroline County, of assault. He was subsequently transferred to Patuxent Institution for examination and evaluation. On March 30, 1973, a jury adjudged him to be a defective delinquent and he was committed to Patuxent for an indeterminate period of confinement. This application for leave to appeal follows from that determination.

This commitment proceeding was not the applicant’s first. The applicant was originally transferred to Patuxent for diagnostic evaluation on…