People v. McGowan

Charles McGowan committed a robbery on June 2, 1932, in Erie County. He was convicted of this offense in September, 1932, and sentenced to a term of five to ten years'.

On May 31, 1932, he committed a robbery in Cattaraugus County, but was not convicted of this crime until almost five years later, on May 21, 1937, and was, sentenced to thirty years plus five years for being armed at the time of the commission of the crime.

He comes before this court on a writ of coram nobis claiming that he should have been sentenced to an indeterminate sentence pursuant to section 2189 of the Penal Law as it…