People ex rel. Ascher v. Lawes

Order denying relator’s motion for a peremptory mandamus order requiring the defendants to credit him with an additional five days a month allowance as against his sentence and to certify his name to the Governor as eligible for a reduction of his term of imprisonment unanimously affirmed, as a matter of law and not in the exercise of discretion. The five days’ diminution of sentence to which the prisoner was entitled at the time he committed his crime was continued in the event of his earning the same under the term compensation as a consequence of chapter 348 of the Laws of 1931. This…