People ex rel. Dent v. Martin

Return of a writ of habeas corpus.

The relator questions the jurisdiction of the sentencing court. That court added to relator’s sentence of fifteen to seventeen years for robbery, an additional sentence of five years for being armed.

Habeas corpus would seem to be the proper remedy. The contention is that the imposition of the additional sentence- was without warrant of law and without the jurisdiction of the court, (People ex rel. Tweed v, Liscomb, 60 N. Y. 559; Matter of Morhous v. N. Y. Supreme Court, 293 N. Y. 131; People ex rel. Hubert v. Kaiser, 206 N. Y. 46.)

*96At the time of the sentence…