258 A.D. 823 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1939
Appeal from an order of the County Court of Clinton county dismissing relator-appellant’s writ of habeas corpus. The relator-appellant was convicted of burglary and grand larceny, and on November 17, 1926, was sentenced for a definite term of five years and two months. After serving approximately a year and a half of such sentence the Governor granted a special commutation, which permitted relator-appellant to be released on parole. In granting this commutation certain conditions were specified by the Governor, one being that if the relator-appellant was thereafter convicted of a felony committed while on parole he would be compelled to serve, in addition to the sentence imposed for the subsequent felony, the balance of the commuted term without deduction for good behavior. As the result of this commutation the relator-appellant was released on parole July 30, 1928, and upon the date of his release he owed three years, six months and twenty-eight days upon the original five years, two months’ sentence. While on parole, and prior to the expiration of the balance of his commuted term, he committed the crimes of burglary in the third degree and grand larceny in the first degree, for which crimes he was sentenced, on June 16, 1931, to a definite term of ten years in prison. By committing a felony while on parole and within the limit of his five years, two months’ term, he breached the specific