People ex rel. Meltsner v. Follette
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtBenjamin, J.
On this appeal from the dismissal of a writ of habeas corpus, we are presented with the question of whether an inmate' sentenced to a reformatory term may be transferred to a State prison, treated no differently there than nonreforma*390tory inmates, and confined beyond the maximum term to which he would have been subject had he received a prison sentence.
The relator pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny in the second degree and was sentenced on February 4, 1966 to the Elmira Reformatory. He was then 22 years old. About three months after being received at Elmira Reformatory, he was…
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