United States of America Ex Rel. Gerard Dennis, Relator-Appellant v. Robert E. Murphy, Warden of Auburn State Prison, Auburn, New York

Relator is presently confined as the result of a 1949 felony conviction had upon his plea of guilty in Counts' Court, West-chester County, to indictments charging various degrees of robbery, burglary and grand larceny. He was sentenced as a fourth offender to serve eighteen years to life imprisonment after the District Attorney had filed informations alleging fourteen prior Canadian felony convictions. New York Penal Law, McKinney’s Consol.Laws, c. 40, § 1943. In a subsequent coram nobis proceeding in the Westchester County Court it was held that three of the fourteen convictions-would have…