WATERMAN v. STATE OF NEW YORK


1 A.D.2d 235 (1956)

Paul Waterman, Appellant-Respondent, v. State of New York, Respondent-Appellant. (Claim No. 32473.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fourth Department.

March 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Harnett and Wilfred E. Hoffman for appellant-respondent.

Jacob K. Javits, Attorney-General (Joseph H. Murphy and James O. Moore, Jr., of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

All concur. Present — McCURN, P. J., VAUGHAN, KIMBALL, WHEELER and WILLIAMS, JJ.


Per Curiam.

This is an action for false imprisonment growing out of the detention of a convict whose maximum term is claimed to have expired nearly two years before he was released from Attica State Prison on a writ of habeas corpus. Claimant was convicted of robbery in the third degree after November 1, 1945, and "committed to the Reception Center of the Department of Correction at Elmira, New York, for classification and confinement pursuant to article 3...

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