People v. Glowacki

This is an appeal from a conviction and commitment of a sixteen-year-old boy, after plea of guilty under a charge of petit larceny. The commitment, issued by the Recorder’s Court of the City of Auburn, directed that the defendant be imprisoned in the New York State Vocational Institution, at Coxsackie, “ there to be dealt with according to law.”

The appellant claims that the commitment is void for indefiniteness, and also that, if not void, it is excessive in that no limit within one year is stated. Counsel have not furnished the court with any citations of decisions rendered on the point, in…