Jenkins v. Director of Patuxent Institution

The applicant, James Robert Jenkins, was determined to be a defective delinquent after a hearing in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County before Judge Bowie and a jury. As a result of the jury’s finding he was committed to Patuxent Institution, and he now seeks leave to appeal.

Jenkins had been convicted of assault with intent to kill a police officer and was sent to Patuxent for examination on the basis of that conviction and his past record, and in accordance with suggestions of the Superintendent of the Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital and of the Director of Forensic Psychiatry of…