UNITED STATES EX REL. TURPIN v. WARDEN OF GREEN HAVEN PRISON

No. 295, Docket 22053.

190 F.2d 252 (1951)

UNITED STATES ex rel. TURPIN v. WARDEN OF GREEN HAVEN PRISON OF STATE OF NEW YORK.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 3, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry K. Chapman and Joseph Aronstein, New York City, for appellant.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York (Wendell P. Brown, Solicitor General, Albany, N. Y., and Samuel A. Hirshowitz and Vincent A. Marsicano, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for appellee.

Charles P. Sullivan, Dist. Atty., Queens County, Long Island City, N. Y., Henry W. Schober, Asst. Dist. Atty., Ridgewood, N. Y., of counsel, filed a brief on behalf of appellee.

Before SWAN, AUGUSTUS N. HAND and L. HAND, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The relator is serving a sentence imposed upon him as a second offender by the County Court of Queens County on his plea of guilty.1 The conviction which the Queens County court accepted as making him a second offender was a sentence imposed in 1945 by the court of Richland County, Wisconsin upon charges to which he had there pleaded guilty. His present writ seeks to inquire into the legality of his conviction in Wisconsin...

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