McCormick v. State

In the Criminal Court of Baltimore, Jeffery McCormick, the appellant, tendered a plea of guilty to a charge of statutory rape. Judge Robert I. H. Hammerman accepted the plea. On 20 January 1976, he sentenced the appellant to a term of five years and, on his own initiative, ordered him to be examined at Patuxent Institution to ascertain if he was a defective delinquent. In this belated appeal, the appellant’s sole contention is that the trial court erred in not giving him “an opportunity to withdraw his guilty plea.”

The record shows that the appellant was indicted for rape (count one), assault…