People v. Aiss

Immediately upon his conviction by a Judge

without a jury in the City Court of Syracuse of violation of section 260.10 (subd. 1) of the Penal Law, endangering the welfare of a child, appellant, a former student at Syracuse University and never before convicted of a crime, as the People concede, was sentenced to imprisonment of one year in the Onondaga Penitentiary.

The maximum imprisonment was imposed for the offense (Penal Law, § 70.15, subd. 1) without pausing to inquire or to direct examination into the mental or other personal circumstances of defendant, and without information being…