Hall v. Director Patuxent Institution

After a jury determined that David V. Hall was still a defective delinquent and he was recommitted to Patuxent Institution by order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County (Shure, J.) dated February 2, 1965, Hall filed an application for leave to appeal. We consider the applicant’s contentions in the order that they were raised.

I

The applicant claims the instructions of the trial judge were weighted in favor of the State and against the appellant. He first contends that it was error for the court to tell the jury that the “expert findings of the personnel at Patuxent are to be accorded very…