People ex rel. Gaudino v. Superintendent of Institution for Male Defective Delinquents

Appeal from an order of the Special Term of the Supreme Court entered in the Ulster county clerk’s office on June 26, 1940, discharging relator from custody of the superintendent of the Institution for Male Defective Delinquents at Napanoch, N. Y. Relator was convicted of petit larceny in the County Court of Kings County on December 7, 1938, adjudged mentally defective and committed to the Institution for Male Defective Delinquents at Napanoch, N. Y. On June 3, 1940, his application for a writ of habeas corpus, seeking his release from the institution at Napanoch, was allowed. After a hearing…