Waterman v. State

Claimant sues the State of New York for damages for being detained in its penal institutions, first at Elmira Reformatory and later at Attica Prison, for one year, ten months and twenty-nine days in excess of five years, his maximum sentence. On October 25, 1945, claimant pleaded guilty to the crime of robbery in the third degree. On November 28, 1945, the County Court of Onondaga County, upon claimant’s plea of guilty and upon a recital that claimant was over the age of sixteen and was nineteen years of age on November 15, 1945, directed as follows: ‘ ‘ Ordered and adjudged by the Court that…