People v. Schulman

The defendant was convicted upon his plea of guilty for a violation of section 304 of the Multiple Dwelling Law. The plea was taken by a Magistrate sitting as a Court of Special Sessions. There are three assignments of claimed errors, namely, that the provisions of section 335-b of the Code of Criminal Procedure and section 131 of the New York City Criminal Courts Act were not complied with, and that it was an abuse of discretion not to allow defendant to withdraw his plea of guilty. We believe that error was committed, though not all of the Bench is in accord that each of the above…