People ex rel. Dambrosio v. McNeill

Relator was sentenced to Sing Sing Prison in 1936

for a three and one-half to seven-year term. In June, 1937, he was transferred to the Institution for Male Defective Delinquents at Napanoch, pursuant to section 439 of the Correction Law. Prior to the date of transfer relator had on two occasions been incarcerated in that institution for crimes committed in 1927 and 1931. He now comes before the Supreme Court upon a writ of habeas corpus asking to be discharged from Napanoch and committed instead to Sing Sing or another State prison. The lower court granted the relief requested after a hearing…