PEOPLE EX REL. ELDARD v. LA VALLEE


26 A.D.2d 963 (1966)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. John S. Eldard, Appellant, v. J. Edwin La Vallee, as Warden of Clinton Prison, Respondent

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

November 21, 1966


REYNOLDS, J.

Relator asserts that he pleaded guilty to a nonexistent indictment and thus a fatal jurisdictional defect exists which requires granting the writ sought. This contention is premised on the assumption that the indictment to which he pleaded indicated his name as "Elard" rather than "Eldard" and was amended at the trial to cure this error. Clearly there is no indictment on record which would conform to this assumption but it is equally clear...

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