FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner-appellant, James Brennan, was convicted in 1953 by the New York Court of General Sessions of attempted assault in the second degree. He was sentenced, as a fourth felony offender, to a term in excess of fifteen years. N.Y.Penal Law, McKinney's Consol.Laws, c. 40, §§ 243, 261, 1942. Nine years later he challenged this sentence in a New York coram nobis proceeding in which he claimed that his second felony conviction...
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