People ex rel. Marlowe v. Martin

This relator is serving a life sentence in the Attica State Prison imposed by the Court of General Sessions of New York County for the crime of robbery in the third degree. The information filed against him in that court set forth three previous convictions, the third of which was rendered February 9, 1934, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland. The information charges that it was a conviction of forgery. In this proceeding the relator has claimed that this was not a conviction of forgery but of a crime which would be only a misdemeanor if committed within this State.…