People ex rel. Batista v. Zelker

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant was given a reformatory sentence. He began serving the sentence at the Elmira Reformatory, hut thereafter was transferred to Green Haven Correctional Facility. His counsel contends that the transfer constituted a denial of due process of law and of equal protection of the law. At Special Term the appellant did not contest the transfer. His contention was that his .sentence had, in fact, albeit not in law, been converted from a reformatory sentence, which does not accumulate a good-conduct reduction of…