PURKS v. DIRECTOR

[App. No. 46, September Term, 1960.]

224 Md. 643 (1961)

166 A.2d 917

PURKS v. DIRECTOR OF PATUXENT INSTITUTION

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 17, 1961.


PER CURIAM:

The applicant, who had been sentenced to eight years for robbery, was found by a jury to be a defective delinquent, and now seeks leave to appeal.

Preliminarily, applicant claims he has an unqualified constitutional right of appeal. This contention was put to rest long ago by the Supreme Court which held in McKane v. Durston, 153 U.S. 684, 38 L.Ed. 867, that whether an appeal should be allowed and under what...

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