People ex rel. Horowitz v. Lawes

The crime of which the relator has been convicted was committed on February 13, 1936. On March 6, 1936, section 1941 of the Penal Law was amended (Laws of 1936, chap. 70) to provide for an indeterminate sentence of a second offender. At the time the crime was committed, section 1941 provided for a determinate sentence for a second offender. The relator pleaded guilty April 8, 1937, and was sentenced to an indeterminate term of not less than two and a half years nor more than five years. Under the law as it was at the time of the commission of the crime, he might have received any sentence up…