McNeal v. Director of Patuxent Institution

The applicant, David Emanuel McNeal, pleaded guilty to a charge of storehouse breaking in 1963 and was sentenced to serve not more than two years in the Maryland Institution for *409Men. Thereafter, upon the request of the Department of Correction he was transferred to Patuxent Institution for evaluation as a defective delinquent. At a non-jury trial held in October 1964 before Chief Judge Manley in the Criminal Court of Baltimore he was found to be a defective delinquent and was committed to Patuxent.

In this application for leave to appeal from the commitment order, the applicant’s counsel…