Jefferson v. Director of Patuxent Institution

Horney, J.,

delivered'the opinion of the Court.

This is an application for leave to appeal from an order of the lower court committing Raymond L. Jefferson to Patuxent Institution after a determination by a jury that he was a defective delinquent within the meaning of § 5 of Art. 3 IB of the Code (1965 Cum. Supp.).

The applicant was convicted of larceny and carrying a concealed weapon and was sentenced to a term of three years in the House of Correction to run from November 24, 1961. Following a series of events—his transfer to Patuxent for psychiatric evaluation, his being found by a jury to be…