People ex rel. Griffin v. LeFevre

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Graves, J.), entered August 24,1981 in Clinton County, which dismissed petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus after a hearing. Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus alleging errors in his conviction for robbery in the first and second degrees and unlawful possession of stolen property. The errors alleged by petitioner are now on review in a direct appeal from his judgment of conviction. Review by way of habeas corpus is generally not available when an appeal of the underlying conviction is pending (People ex rel.…