DANIELS v. SUPERINTENDENT

No. 357, September Term, 1976.

34 Md. App. 173 (1976)

366 A.2d 1064

LINWOOD DANIELS v. SUPERINTENDENT, CLIFTON T. PERKINS STATE HOSPITAL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Turner, Assistant Public Defender, with whom were Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Arnold M. Zerwitz, Assistant Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Bernard A. Raum, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Stephen Tully, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, POWERS and LOWE, JJ.


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

Appellant was confined in the Clifton Perkins State Hospital, pursuant to Md.Code, Art. 59, § 27, after he had been found not guilty of a homicide by reason of insanity. Approximately two years later he petitioned for release as permitted by that section.1 Application for release under § 27 is "pursuant to the provisions of § 15 of this article." See also Keiner v. Superintendent...

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