Brown v. Director of Patuxent Institution

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In his amended petition for relief under the Post Conviction Procedure Act, the applicant, Howard Davis Brown, Jr., contended that he had been denied “constitutional rights” in connection with his hearing to determine whether or not he was a defective delinquent in that, first, he had not been furnished with a copy of the order for his examination at the Patuxent Institution to ascertain whether or not he was a defective delinquent, as required by Code (1957), Art. 31B, Sec. 6 (b), and second, that no private psychiatrist had been appointed to…