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HAMILTON v. McAULIFFE

[No. 147, September Term, 1975.]

277 Md. 336 (1976)

353 A.2d 634

HAMILTON v. McAULIFFE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 22, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Howard Simpson for appellant.

Submitted on brief by Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Glenn W. Bell, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.

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

Hubert Hamilton, a 35-year-old Jehovah's Witness, was shot through the chest on the evening of December 12, 1973, and was hospitalized under the care of two physicians who determined that he could not survive without immediate surgery and a blood transfusion. Hamilton consented to the surgery but refused to authorize a blood transfusion even though he was informed by his physicians that he would die if surgery was...

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