PALMER v. STATE

[No. 50, September Term, 1957.]

215 Md. 142 (1957)

137 A.2d 119

PALMER v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 19, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. Finnerty and William L. Jacob for the appellant.

Joseph S. Kaufman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, Frank H. Newell, 3rd, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Douglas G. Bottom, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ.


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County rendered by Judge Smith sitting without a jury, on March 22, 1957, that the appellant, James Palmer, was a defective delinquent and ordering that he be committed to Patuxent Institution for an indefinite period, subject to the further order of the Court.

On April 18, 1955, James Palmer was arrested and charged with housebreaking. On...

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