PEOPLE EX REL. WOLFE v. JACKSON


3 A.D.2d 631 (1956)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Lewis Wolfe, Appellant, v. J. Vernel Jackson, as Warden of Clinton Prison, Respondent

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

December 20, 1956


Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree in Kings County November 1, 1944. Thereafter he was committed to a hospital on the ground of insanity until February 9, 1950 when he was certified as no longer insane. On the confirmation of this certificate by the court on March 18, 1950 he was again brought before the court on the record of his conviction and the mandatory judgment of execution was entered March 20, 1950. Thereafter the Governor commuted this death sentence...

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