People ex rel. Becker v. Martin

The relator herein was convicted by the verdict of a jury in Supreme Court, Cayuga County, on May 21, 1930, of the crime of attempt to escape from State prison in violation of section 1695 of the Penal Law. He was sentenced by Justice Benjamin B. Cunningham on May 21, 1930, to be imprisoned “ at hard labor in the State Prison, at Auburn, New York, for the term of twelve years.”

Belator herein contends that said sentence of twelve years for the crime of which he was convicted is an excessive sentence and defective because it wholly fails to disclose any reason for a period of imprisonment in…