People ex rel. Knapp v. Jackson

Relator was convicted in November of 1949 in the County Court of Suffolk County of burglary in the third degree and, a month later, after the District Attorney had filed an information against him charging him with having been previously convicted of four felonies, he was sentenced as a fourth felony offender (Penal Law, § 1942). Some seven years later, he brought this habeas corpus proceeding in the Clinton County Court to have that judgment set aside upon the ground that he was improperly adjudicated a fourth offender. More particularly, relator claimed that two of the four convictions…