People v. Gabel

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court, St. Lawrence County, rendered July 15, 1974, convicting defendant, on his plea of guilty, of assault in the second degree. The defendant, while an inpatient at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center in Ogdensburg, New York, was charged with felonious assault upon a female employee at the center, alleged to have been committed on the center’s premises. He was arrested on April 14, 1974, and arraigned in city court on April 15, 1974 at which time he requested that counsel be assigned to him, waived a hearing, and did not ask for bail. On April 16, 1974…