People ex rel. Holton v. Hunt

The relator was convicted in the County Court of Kings county of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree. He had never before been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment in a State prison. It was, therefore, the duty of the court to impose an indeterminate sentence. (Penal Law, § 2189.) The County Court in which the conviction was had, and before which the relator was arraigned, on the 7th day of May, "1923, passed sentence wherein it adjudged that the relator “ be imprisoned in the State prison at Sing Sing, at hard labor, under an indeterminate sentence, the maximum of such…