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BIRD v. STATE

[No. 282, September Term, 1962.]

231 Md. 432 (1963)

190 A.2d 804

BIRD v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed June 13, 1963.

Denied June 14, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juanita Jackson Mitchell and W.A.C. Hughes, Jr., for appellant.

James P. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, William J. O'Donnell and James W. McAllister, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, HORNEY and SYBERT, JJ.

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

The appellant, Adela Garcia Bird, a native of Puerto Rico residing in Maryland, was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of assault with intent to murder and was sentenced to a term of not more than ten years in the Institution for Women. But the court, on the suggestion of the appellant, suspended the sentence on the condition that "she leave and go back to Puerto Rico * * * and remain there for at least [a...

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