People v. Follette

Chief Judge Fuld.

These cases, argued together on appeal, involve the interpretation of former section 335-b (now § 335-c) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as it read prior to its amendment in 1963. At that time, the statute provided that a warning as to the possible effect of prior convictions upon a defendant’s sentence had to be given by the court ‘ ‘ upon the arraignment *243of the defendant and before accepting a plea ” (L. 1959, ch. 219, § l).1

People ex rel. Gallagher v. Follette; People ex rel. Butler v. Follette; People ex rel. Enright v. Mancusi.

Each of the relators in the above cases…