People v. Ortiz

This is a motion in the nature of a coram nobis to vacate a judgment dated May 28, 1964, which convicted defendant on his own plea of guilty to the crime of manslaughter in the second degree, unarmed. He was thereupon sentenced to Sing Sing Prison for a term of 7% to 15 years.

The defendant-petitioner was jointly indicted on October 31, 1963, with three other codefendants, for the crime of murder in the first degree. The judgment of conviction was unanimously affirmed on November 15, 1965 (24 A D 2d 885) and leave to *452appeal to the Court of Appeals was denied on March 9,1966, by Judge Fuld.

It…