Skinker v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County revoking the appellant’s probation before verdict, entering a verdict of guilty, and sentencing the appellant to confinement in the Maryland Institution for Men for an indefinite term not to exceed four years (dating from May 25, 1964).

At the outset, we consider that the jurisdiction of this Court to entertain an appeal from an order revoking probation has been settled by Coleman v. State, 231 Md. 220, 222, 189 A. 2d 616 (1963). In that case the State moved to dismiss upon the ground that in granting and striking out…