Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Louis DeLeen, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1943-04-15
Citations: 290 N.Y. 310
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Louis DeLeen, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 290
Pages: 310–312

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Louis DeLeen, Appellant.
Argued March 8, 1943;
decided April 15, 1943.
Jacob Zelenko for appellant.
Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Irving Galt, James Amadei and Conrad A. Johnson of counsel) for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Under section 203 of the Correction Law, the court had power to impose upon appellant an indeterminate sentence of confinement in the penitentiary. Such a penitentiary sentence was, however, the limit of the punishment that could be meted out to the offender. He could not, in addition thereto, be ordered to pay a fine.
The judgments should be reversed and the matter remitted to the Court of Special Sessions, for the imposition on appellant of a lawful sentence.
Lehman, Ch. J., Loughran, Finch, Rippey, Lewis, Conway and Desmond, JJ., concur.
Judgments reversed, etc.