People Ex Rel. Saia v. Martin

The appellant, when twenty years of age, pleaded guilty in Supreme Court, Erie County, to the crime of robbery second degree. He was sentenced to be “ imprisoned at hard labor in the Elmira Reformatory * * * until discharged according to law.” While he was serving that sentence the Commissioner of Correction, assuming to act under authority conferred upon him by section 293 of the Correction Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 43), made an order by which the appellant was transferred from Elmira Reformatory to Clinton Prison at Dannemora where the warden was ordered to receive and detain him “ as directed…