People ex rel. Kipnis v. McCann

Habeas corpus to inquire into the detention of the relator now imprisoned in the penitentiary. The relator was convicted in the Court of Special Sessions of the city of New York of the misdemeanor of impairing the morals of a child. Penal Law, § 483. He was sentenced January 5, 1920, under the Parole Commission Act (Laws of 1915, chap. 579, as amd. by Laws of 1916, chap. 287). The sentence was indeterminate, as required by the Parole Commission Act (§4). The relator has been imprisoned under this judgment for about twenty-one months. He contends *590that one year is the longest term he conld be…