People v. Coe

Order unanimously reversed and proceeding remanded to Oneida County Court for a hearing. Memorandum: In 1948 appellant, following a trial, was convicted of the crime of kidnapping. Immediately after the return of the jury’s verdict and on the same day appellant, apparently with the acquiescence of his assigned counsel, pleaded guilty to three additional indictments charging (1) sodomy, (2) burglary, third degree, and grand larceny, and (3) grand larceny, second degree. Thereafter appellant was sentenced to 40 years to life on the kidnapping charge and one sentence of 10 to 20 years and two…