People v. Newport

The defendant-petitioner has made a motion for a proceeding in the nature of a writ of coram nobis to vacate and set aside a judgment of conviction entered in the Oneida County Court on February 14, 1946, convicting the defendant-petitioner upon his plea of guilty of forgery in the second degree committed as a fourth felony offense.

One of the previous felony convictions alleged in the indictment to which the defendant-petitioner pleaded guilty was the crime of breaking and entering in the nighttime entered in the Superior Court, County of Hampshire, Massachusetts, on the 7th day of June,…