PURKS v. STATE

[No. 309, September Term, 1960.]

226 Md. 43 (1961)

171 A.2d 726

PURKS v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 27, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Robert Evans, for appellant.

Joseph S. Kaufman, Deputy Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, Saul A. Harris and Abraham L. Adler, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and SYBERT, JJ.


HORNEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from the order of the Criminal Court of Baltimore under which Francis Aubrey Purks (the appellant) was committed to the Patuxent Institution, pursuant to the provisions of Code (1957), Art. 31B, § 9 (b), for an indeterminate period without either maximum or minimum limits.

The appellant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to the Maryland Penitentiary for a term of eight years. At the...

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