Smith v. Director, Patuxent Institution

On 22 March 1971 at a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Frederick County Merhl Smith, Jr.1 was convicted of robbery and sentenced to 8 years to begin at the expiration of the sentence imposed on him on 8 September 1967. The judgment was affirmed on appeal. Smith, et al. v. State, No. 242, September Term, 1971, filed 22 November 1971, unreported, cert. denied, 264 Md. 751.

On 23 March 1971 the court ordered the Commissioner of Correction to deliver Merhl into the custody of the-Director of Patuxent Institution for examination and evaluation as a possible defective delinquent. Code, Art. 31B,…