Bird v. State

The appellant, Adela Garcia Bird, a native of Puerto Rico residing in Maryland, was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of assault with intent to murder and was sentenced to a term of not more than ten years in the Institution for Women. But the court, on the suggestion of the appellant, suspended the sentence on the condition that “she leave and go back to Puerto Rico * * * and remain there for at least [a] ten year period.” The appeal is from both the judgment and sentence.

In December of 1961, Allen H. Best, the victim and prosecuting witness, who was living apart from his wife,…