Slagle v. State

The appellant, Stanley Norman Slagle, was convicted of escape from the Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital by a jury in the Circuit Court for Howard County and was sentenced to five years in the Maryland House of Correction by the Honorable James Macgill on 24 March 1965.

The sole contention here made is that the Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital is not a place of confinement within the meaning of Code (1957), Article 27, Section 139 as amended, so as to constitute an escape therefrom a criminal offense.

In 1963, the appellant was in the Baltimore City Jail awaiting trial under an indictment…