People ex rel. Mercurio v. Morhous

Appeal from an order of the Washington County Special Term, dated November 25, 1944, and entered in the Washington County Clerk’s office December 19, 1944, dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding relator to the custody of the Warden of Great Meadow Prison. Permission to prosecute" the appeal as a poor person on a typewritten record was granted January 10, 1945. Relator was convicted in Erie County of the crime of forgery in the second degree and sentenced to a term of not less than four years nor more than eight years. On September 6, 1935, he was released on parole and taken *797into…