Gershinsky v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims awarding claimant $8,515.11, including interest, for his wrongful detention in State prison from October 6, 1936 to December 29, 1937. Claimant cross-appeals arguing that he should have been awarded damages for 16 days’ detention in 1954, and further that the court should have allowed him $500, attorneys fees for services in obtaining claimant’s release *965from prison in 1937. On February 13, 1923 claimant was sentenced to a 5-year definite term at Sing Sing Prison on a conviction of burglary in the third degree. On May 15, 1926, claimant…