Plitt v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This applicant for leave to appeal from a denial of post conviction relief pleaded guilty to the fourth count of a burglary indictment, receiving stolen goods, and was sentenced to five years in December, 1961. He was referred to Patuxent Institution for examination, and subsequently found to be a defective delinquent. In his present petition he raised several contentions which, we think, were correctly rejected by Judge Jones in the court below. As to his principal contention, we may supplement her opinion by referring to three very recent decisions of this Court. (Two of them were decided…