People v. Monahan

The question before us on this appeal is whether an appellant is entitled to have counsel assigned to represent him, upon request, at a coram nobis hearing in a Court of Special Sessions.

*312In 1945 appellant was convicted, upon his plea of guilty, of the misdemeanor of fraudulently secreting personal property (Penal Law, § 940). He is presently incarcerated at the Auburn State Prison as a second felony offender based on two subsequent felony convictions.

In 1963 appellant petitioned the City Court of Borne, before which he was convicted of the 1945 misdemeanor, for a writ of error coram nobis,…