Case Name: In the Matter of Vincent Angione, Appellant, against Thomas H. Murphy, as Warden of Clinton Prison, and the New York State Board of Parole, and Others, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1939-06-13
Citations: 257 A.D. 1020
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Vincent Angione, Appellant, against Thomas H. Murphy, as Warden of Clinton Prison, and the New York State Board of Parole, and Others, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 257
Pages: 1020–1021

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Vincent Angione, Appellant, against Thomas H. Murphy, as Warden of Clinton Prison, and the New York State Board of Parole, and Others, Respondents.

Opinion:
Appeal from the denial of an application made under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act, for an order directing Murphy, the warden of Clinton Prison, to release petitioner. The Governor commuted the minimum of petitioner's indeterminate sentence to permit the Parole Board to consider an application for release at any time from and after March 17, 1938. The original sentence of ten years minimum and twenty years maximum was pronounced September 26, 1931. The Parole Board could and did exercise its discretion by refusing the application for parole. (Correction Law, § 213; People ex rel. Atkins v. Jennings, 248 N. Y. 46.) Section 241 of the Correction Law does not apply. Order unanimously affirmed. Present — Hill, P. J., Crapser, Bliss and Heffernan, JJ.