People ex rel. Singer v. Parole Commission

Upon this habeas corpus proceeding, relator claims he has been improperly imprisoned in the city penitentiary because he has served more than the maximum term of three years under the Parole Commission Law (Laws of 1915, chap. 579; McKinney’s Uncons. Laws [Cities First Class], §§ 751-759)., Relator’s calculation includes a term of fifteen months and two days during which he was imprisoned in Dannemora Prison. The question before me is whether such credit should be allowed, or in other words, whether relator was serving both sentences concurrently.

On May 29, 1934, in the Court of General…