People ex rel. Lesser v. Hunt

The petitioner was indicted by the grand jury of New York county of the crime of kidnaping on or about October 29,1931. He was brought to trial at a term of the Court of General Sessions in New York City, and on March 16, 1932, he was convicted. Thereafter a motion for a new trial upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence was made and denied. He was thereafter sentenced as a third offender to fifty years’ imprisonment. Thereafter an appeal was taken from the judgment of conviction and from the order denying the motion for a new trial upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence to the…