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- Title: Prevatte v. Director
- Author : September Term, 1968 Court of Special Appeals of Maryland No. 57
- Release Date : January 18, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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On 13 July 1956 the applicant was indicted for murder in Prince George's County. He filed pleas of not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the commission of the offense and not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the trial. By order of court he was examined by the Department of Mental Hygiene and a report of the examination was filed. He elected a trial by jury and the case came on for trial on 31 October 1956 in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Judges J. Dudley Digges and John R. Fletcher presiding. The trial concluded on 2 November 1956 and the jury rendered verdicts of sane at the time of the commission of the offense, sane at the time of the trial and guilty of murder in the first degree without capital punishment. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. A motion for a new trial was made and subsequently withdrawn. No appeal from the judgment was filed. By order of court he was examined for possible defective delinquency and upon a hearing before the court on 11 March 1957 he was found to be a defective delinquent and committed to Patuxent Institution. On 26 February 1968 he filed a petition for relief under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act, and after counsel was appointed to represent him, two amended petitions, one on 7 May 1968 and the other on 17 May 1968 were filed. After an evidentiary hearing on 20 May 1968 in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County the relief prayed was denied by Judge Ralph W. Powers by order of 27 May 1968 accompanied by a memorandum.