People ex rel. Kondrk v. Foster

The relator was indicted by the Grand Jury of Chemung County on four counts for the crimes of burglary, third degree, grand larceny, second degree, and criminally receiving stolen property. He pleaded guilty as charged in the indictment and was sentenced on October 18, 1932, to the New York State Reformatory at Elmira, New York, subject to the rules and regulations. The Department of Correction has computed his term as having a maximum of twenty years, which was the maximum punishment for criminally receiving as the law stood then. (Penal Law, § 1308, as amd. by L. 1928, ch. 354.)

The relator…