Defendant appeals from an order dismissing a proceeding to review a sentence as a second offender upon a conviction of manslaughter, first degree, in Washington County on October 16, 1951. He argues that the prior conviction in 1946 in Dutchess County for grand larceny, second degree was not a conviction for felony because the sentence imposed thereon was not in State's prison, but six months in jail. The test governing whether or not a person convicted of a felony may be...
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