People v. Carpenteur

Chief Judge Fuld.

The defendant, Richard M. Carpenteur, pleaded guilty to the crime of robbery in the second degree and was sentenced as a second felony offender under section 1941—now section 70.10—of . the Penal Law. He here challenges the sentence imposed on the ground that, following his earlier conviction in California, he had been adjudicated a youthful offender and that this conviction could not, therefore, be used as a predicate for multiple offender treatment.

*573In 1951, when this defendant was 18 years of age, he was found guilty of the crime of robbery in California. In accordance with…