People ex rel. Gabriel v. Warden

The question involved is the construction and validity of chapter 410 of the Laws of 1919. That statute amended section 2193 of the Penal Law. All of the former section was omitted, so the present section is entirely new. The first sentence of the section now reads: “Any time spent by a person convicted of a crime in a prison or jail prior to his conviction and before sentence has been pronounced upon him, shall become and be calculated as a part of the term of the sentence imposed upon him, whether such sentence is an indeterminate one or for a definite period of time; and such time shall,…