Case Name: The People of the State of New York ex rel. Lawrence Peck, Respondent, against J. Edwin La Vallee, as Warden of Clinton Prison, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1959-06-09
Citations: 8 A.D.2d 906
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York ex rel. Lawrence Peck, Respondent, against J. Edwin La Vallee, as Warden of Clinton Prison, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 906–906

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Lawrence Peck, Respondent, against J. Edwin La Vallee, as Warden of Clinton Prison, Appellant.

Opinion:
Appeal from an order of the County Court of Clinton County which sustained a writ of habeas corpus. The relator was sentenced on November 13, 1950 in the County Court of Saratoga County as a second felony offender to an indeterminate term of 5 to 10 years for burglary in the third degree. It is his contention that there was a failure to comply with section 472 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by failure to delay sentence for a period of two days. It is apparently his contention that the requirement of section 472 may not be waived. The record clearly shows that relator, while represented by able counsel who was personally present, expressly waived any delay in sentence. Such a waiver is expressly permitted .by section 472, which ends with these words: " but any delay may be waived by the defendant." We see no implication to the contrary in People ex rel. Ingber v. Jackson (5 A D 2d 1019) where there was no claim or even suggestion of a waiver and obviously no such implication was intended. The writ was improperly sustained, and the order is reversed on the law and the -facts, the writ dismissed, and the relator remanded to the custody of the Warden. Foster, P. J., Coon, Gibson, Herlihy and Reynolds, JJ., concur.