People v. Pereira

The three appellants herein were all convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. Thereafter, they were .spared that penalty when their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. On direct appeal to our court, all three judgments of conviction were affirmed.1

The appeals herein are by permission of Chief Judge Fuld directly from orders of the Supreme Court, New York County, denying coram nobis relief (Code Grim. Pro., § 517, subd. 3). (Terry’s application was denied without a hearing while Pereira and Cruz received Huntley type hearings.)

Section 517 (subd. 3) provides, in…