PEOPLE EX REL. POWERS v. JOHNSTON


17 A.D.2d 872 (1962)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Rudolph Powers, Appellant, v. W. Cecil Johnston, as Director of Dannemora State Hospital, Respondent

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

October 31, 1962


On March 26, 1952 relator convicted of robbery, first degree, was sentenced to a term of from 10 to 20 years and remanded to the Elmira Reception Center. As a result of a psychiatric examination at the reception center, relator was transferred to Dannemora State Hospital. Subsequently he was returned from Dannemora to the reception center and assigned to Auburn Prison. In January of 1961, approximately nine months after relator arrived at Auburn, relator was returned to Dannemora...

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