Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Edward Love, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1953-04-24
Citations: 305 N.Y. 722
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Edward Love, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 305
Pages: 722–724

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Edward Love, Respondent.
Argued January 14, 1953;
decided April 24, 1953.
Miles F. McDonald, District Attorney (Aaron Nussbaum and Henry J. F. Davey of counsel), for appellant.
Paul F. Donohue and Charles A. Bohl for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is not a situation encompassed by our decision in People v. Olah (300 N. Y. 96). In our view— and it is based on the record of what occurred when defendant pleaded guilty in 1935 in Alabama to the crime of grand larceny — he admitted and acknowledged that he " feloniously took " certain property " from [the] person " of its owner — an act which, if committed within this state, would have been felonious (Penal Law, § 1941j 1942), namely, grand larceny in the second degree (Penal Law, § 1290, 1296, subd. 2). Consequently, the trial court had no alternative but to adjudge and sentence defendant as a fourth felony offender.
The order adjudging defendant a third felony offender, and the judgment sentencing him as a third felony offender, should be reversed and defendant returned to the County Court of Kings County for adjudication and resentence as a fourth felony offender under section 1942 of the Penal Law.
Lewis, Ch. J., Conway, Desmond, Dye, Ftjld and Fboessel, JJ., concur.
Judgment reversed, etc.