People ex rel. Wasmund v. Wallack

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus in which the relator predicates his relief primarily on the alleged illegality of his sentence.

The relator was found guilty, after trial, on two counts of an indictment which charged attempted rape in the first degree and assault in the second degree.

*278On March 30, 1959, at a time when he was 19 years of age, the relator was sentenced by the County Court of Chautauqua County “ to imprisonment in an institution under the jurisdiction of the New York State Department of Correction, and committed to the reception center, elmira, new tore, for…