People ex rel. La Placa v. Murphy

Appeal by petitioner from an order of the Clinton County Court, entered in the office of the clerk of that county on June 2, 1937, dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remaining petitioner to Clinton Prison at Dannemora. Appellant was sentenced by the County Court of Steuben county on December 16, 1932, for assault in the second degree, as a fourth offender, to a term of twenty-five years to life. He bad been charged with the following previous felony convictions: January 28, 1925, grand larceny in the first degree, Monroe County Court, sentenced to Monroe County Penitentiary for one year.…