Waterman v. State

This is an action for false imprisonment growing out of the detention of a convict whose maximum term is claimed to have expired nearly two years before he was released from Attica State Prison on a writ of habeas corpus. Claimant was convicted of robbery in the third degree after November 1,1945, and 1 ‘ committed to the Reception Center of the Department of Correction at Elmira, New York, for classification and confinement pursuant to article 3-A of the Correction Law ’ ’. The duration of such confinement was never judicially determined.

The question chiefly argued on this appeal was whether…