PEOPLE EX REL. REYNOLDS v. MARTIN


3 N.Y.2d 217 (1957)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Virgil Earl Reynolds, Appellant, v. Walter B. Martin, as Warden of Attica Prison, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Skivington for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Frederick T. Devlin and James O. Moore, Jr., of counsel), for respondent.

DESMOND, DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE, JJ., concur.


CONWAY, Ch. J.

This appeal by relator is taken pursuant to permission granted by our court from an order of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, which unanimously affirmed an order of the Wyoming County Court dismissing his writ of habeas corpus and remanding him to the custody of the respondent, Warden of Attica State Prison.

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