People v. Wurzler

Defendant was convicted in 1939, in the County Court of Broome County, upon a plea of guilty, of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree. Four years later he moved, *345by a coram nobis application in that court, to set aside the judgment of conviction. The county judge, disqualified from presiding because he had been district attorney when defendant was convicted, transferred the motion to the Supreme Court, and that court denied it. In 1947, defendant instituted another coram nobis proceeding and the county judge again transferred the matter to the Supreme Court. On this occasion, the…