Ambrose v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This application for leave to appeal is from a jury’s finding of defective delinquency on May 6, 1960. The application was not filed within the thirty days prescribed by Code (1960 Supp.), Art. 3IB, sec. 11, but it would appear that the applicant wrote a letter to the trial court concerning appeal, within thirty days after his conviction. Although he was correctly informed on May 26, 1960, that the change in the law, relating to applications for leave to appeal in forma pauperis, would not be effective until June 1, 1960, (cf. Acts (1960), ch. 43 and Cowman v. State, 220 Md. 207, 209), the…