SIMMONS v. DIRECTOR

[App. No. 72, September Term, 1962.]

231 Md. 618 (1963)

189 A.2d 644

SIMMONS v. DIRECTOR OF PATUXENT INSTITUTION

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 4, 1963.


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

On March 19, 1958, Wilfred C. Simmons, the applicant, pleaded guilty before Chief Judge Harris in the Circuit Court for Allegany County to a charge of maiming a woman and was sentenced to serve five years in the Maryland House of Correction. In later proceedings the trial judge characterized the maiming as sadistic and as one of the most cruel and unwarranted attacks that had...

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