Simon v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This is an application for leave to appeal from a denial of post conviction relief by Judge Shook. The applicant was convicted of sodomy in 1958 and subsequently committed to Patuxent Institution after having been found to be a defective delinquent. He was paroled from Patuxent in 1961, but on October 8, 1962, he was alleged to have committed the crime of assault and battery upon two girls, aged 10 and 11. He was tried upon information before a trial magistrate in the People’s Court, represented by experienced counsel of his own selection, convicted and sentenced to three years on each charge…