Keiner v. Superintendent

The appellant Keiner is confined in Spring Grove State Hospital for the insane, having been transferred from Clifton T. Perkins State Hospital to which he had been committed on August 16, 1963, under Code (1964 Replacement Vol.), Art. 59 § 8 (b), following a determination by Judge Menchine sitting without a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County that he was not guilty of murder as charged by the State because he was insane at the time of the commission of the killing (although he was found competent to stand trial). On December 10, 1964, Keiner filed a petition that he be brought…