People ex rel. Warshaw v. Klein

Writ dismissed and relator remanded. The relator pleaded guilty on December 15, 1947, in the Court of Special Sessions, to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to be imprisoned in the workhouse of the city of New York for a term of six months. On March 9, 1948, he moved in said Court of Special Sessions to change the place of commitment from the workhouse to the city penitentiary; the application was granted and it is alleged that said court ordered that the commitment to the workhouse be returned to the clerk of said court and that a commitment be substituted naming the place of commitment as the…