People v. Gifford

Appeal from an order of the Washington County Court which denied the motion in the nature of a writ of error coram nobis. The appellant was convicted in 1933 in Washington County for burglary and was thereupon sentenced as a second offender, based upon a prior conviction in the State of Vermont, for a term not to exceed 10 years in jail, which sentence was served in its entirety. In 1949 the appellant was convicted in Washington County of assault and as a third offender, was sentenced to a term of from. 2% to 10 years. In 1956, upon an appeal from a denial of a writ of error coram nobis, this…