People v. Erickson

Defendant pleaded guilty in a Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York to each of the sixty counts of an information. The first of those counts charged a conspiracy to violate section 986 of the Penal Law (the “ book-making ” statute). Each of the following fifty-nine counts alleged a violation of section 986. Defendant was, thereafter, sentenced, on each of the first two counts, to imprisonment for one year in the penitentiary and a $500 fine, or in default of payment of the fine, thirty days additional in the city prison. On counts 3, 4 and 5, he was, in each instance, given the…