People ex rel. Coates v. Martin
| Decision Date | 09 April 1959 |
| Citation | 184 N.Y.S.2d 443,8 A.D.2d 688 |
| Parties | PEOPLE of State of New York ex rel. Onie D. COATES, Sr., Respondent, v. Walter B. MARTIN, Individually, and as Warden of Attica State Prison, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. (J. Bruce MacDonald, Schenectady, of counsel), for appellant.
John G. Putnam, Jr., Buffalo, for respondent.
Before McCURN, P. J., and KIMBALL, WILLIAMS, BASTOW, and HALPERN, JJ.
The petitioner-respondent had been sentenced on March 31, 1954 as a second felony offender by the Kings County Court to an indeterminate term of from 2 1/2 years to 5 years. On April 20, 1954 he was brought back from Sing Sing Prison and taken to Nassau County Court for trial on another indictment, charging him with the felony of criminally possessing a pistol after having been previously convicted of a crime, in violation of section 1897, subd. 4 of the Penal Law. He pleaded guilty on November 19, 1954 and he was sentenced on December 17, 1954 to an indeterminate term of from 3 1/2 years to 7 years. (This was the shortest sentence which it was permissible for the court to impose, under sections 1935 and 1941 of the Penal Law.) The petitioner, in the meantime, had spent 242 days in the Nassau County Jail. In imposing sentence, the Nassau County Judge ordered that the sentence be served 'with credit for time served in the Nassau County Jail, and concurrent as nearly as possible with sentence imposed in Kings County on March 31, 1954.' This sentence was improper. The petitioner, throughout the period of his incarceration in the County Jail, was under the Kings County sentence, and was not being held solely by reason of the pendency of the Nassau County charge for which he was ultimately sentenced. Hencesection 2193 of the Penal Law was not applicable. The petitioner received full credit on his Kings County sentence for the time he spent in the Nassau County Jail. Nevertheless, the Warden had no right to refuse to give the petitioner credit for 242 days upon the Nassau County sentence, as directed by the Court. Prison officials are bound by the terms of the commitment papers and they cannot add to or detract therefrom (People ex rel. Jackson v. Weaver, 279 App.Div. 88, 108 N.Y.S.2d 653; People ex rel. Hand v. Prison Board, 191 App.Div. 127, 180 N.Y.S. 702). The error in the sentence must be corrected by appropriate judicial proceedings in the sentencing court (Donohue v....
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