Kane v. New York State Department of Correction

The respondent’s petition at Special Term alleged that the respondent after trial was convicted of a felony, that before sentence was imposed he was committed to Matteawan State Hospital, that he was thereafter released pursuant to a writ of habeas corpus, returned to the court in which his conviction took place and sentenced “to serve, seven (7) years”. He seeks a judgment requiring the appellants to compute his sentence with allowance for alleged reduction of sentence earned by him pursuant to section 230 of the Correction Law and creditable to him pursuant to subdivision 1 of section 2193…