ALEXANDER v. SUPERINTENDENT

[No. 220, September Term, 1966.]

246 Md. 334 (1967)

228 A.2d 236

ALEXANDER v. SUPERINTENDENT, SPRING GROVE STATE HOSPITAL

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 11, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Peregoff and John W. Hessian, III for appellant.

Edward R. Jeunette, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, on the brief for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.


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

This is an appeal from the order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Proctor, J.) recommitting Archer A. Alexander to Spring Grove State Hospital following a second sanity hearing before the court without a jury at which the court found that the patient continued to be a danger to society.

The patient was admitted to the hospital under a court order on July 2, 1959 as the result of "wrecklessly driving...

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