People ex rel. Kamisaroff v. Johnston

Chief Judge Desmond.

We granted relator leave to appeal from a unanimous no-opinion order of Appellate Division, Third Department, affirming a dismissal of relator’s habeas corpus proceeding after a hearing. The order appealed from remanded relator to custody in the Dannemora State Hospital where he has been since 1941. In April, 1941 he escaped from a Connecticut hospital for the insane and two weeks after the escape was arrested in this State for the alleged theft of an automobile. On his trial for that larceny in Orange County Court he pleaded insanity but was convicted and in June, 1941…