PEOPLE EX REL. ZAKOWICKI v. MORHOUS


285 A.D. 311 (1954)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Sylvester Zakowicki, Appellant, v. Vernon A. Morhous, as Warden of Great Meadow Correctional Institution, et al., Respondents

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

December 28, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvester Zakowicki, appellant in person.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Wendell P. Brown, Raymond B. Madden and Manuel T. Murcia of counsel), for respondents.

FOSTER, P. J., COON, IMRIE and ZELLER, JJ., concur.


HALPERN, J.

The relator appeals from an order of the Special Term dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the relator to custody.

On November 10, 1944, the appellant was convicted of the crime of armed robbery in the third degree and was sentenced to the Elmira Reformatory, there to be dealt with according to law. Under the statute as it then read, the maximum term for which the appellant could...

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