People ex rel. Coates v. Martin

Order affirmed, without costs of this appeal to either party. Memorandum: The petitioner-respondent had been sentenced on March 31, 1954 as a second felony offender by the Kings County Court to an indeterminate term of from two and one-half years to five years. On April 20, 1954 he was brought back from Sing Sing Prison and taken to Nassau County Court for trial on another indictment, charging him with the felony of criminally possessing a pistol after having been previously convicted of a crime, in violation of subdivision 4 of section 1897 of the Penal Law. He pleaded guilty on November 19,…