People ex rel. Rabiner v. Warden of City Prison

Dowling, J.:

On January 25, 1924, the relator was sentenced to be imprisoned in the penitentiary of the county of New York, upon his plea of guilty in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the City and County of New York for the crime of hypothecation of customer’s securities in violation of section 956 of the Penal Law (as added by Laws of 1913, chap. 500). By an indorsement on the commitment by the direction of the court at the request of defendant the sentence was stayed until February 8, 1924. It appears that after spending seventy-seven days in the penitentiary under his said…