Moore v. Thorn

Petitioners, constituting the Board of Parole of the State of New York, seek an order of peremptory mandamus directing the respondent, Hon. Frank B. Thorn, special county judge of Erie county, “ to vacate his order dated November 29, 1933, suspending sentence of one Walter Groom, and further directing him to remand said Walter Groom to prison there to serve his sentence pursuant to law.”

*137The said Walter Groom was convicted of rape, first degree, and sentenced by said special county judge on December 3, 1926, to a term of thirty years in Auburn State Prison. The said Groom thereupon entered…