People ex rel. Paris v. Hunt
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William Hunt, as Agent and Warden, etc., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Washington Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Washington on the 27th day of January, 1922, directing the return of the relator to the sheriff of Bronx county and to the County Court of said Bronx county, there to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the judgment under which the relator has been detained.
1Opinion of the Court
Van Kirk, J.:
The defendant was indicted for assault in the second degree; pleaded guilty and was sentenced November 19, 1920. The return to the writ shows that the judgment and sentence were in the following language:
“ Whereupon it is ordered and adjudged by the Court, that the said Joseph A. Paris for the felony aforesaid whereof he is convicted, be imprisoned in the State Prison at Sing Sing at hard labor, under an indeterminate sentence, the maximum of such imprisonment to be five years and-months, and the minimum thereof two years and six months.
“ After serving one year of the aforesaid…
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