Case Name: The People of the State of New York ex rel. Asa Boyd, Also Known as Asa Sessons, Appellant, v. Edward M. Fay, as Warden of Green Haven Prison, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1962-02-26
Citations: 15 A.D.2d 824
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York ex rel. Asa Boyd, Also Known as Asa Sessons, Appellant, v. Edward M. Fay, as Warden of Green Haven Prison, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 824–824

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Asa Boyd, Also Known as Asa Sessons, Appellant, v. Edward M. Fay, as Warden of Green Haven Prison, Respondent.

Opinion:
In 1954, after a jury trial in the Supreme Court, Erie County, relator was convicted of burglary in the third degree and petit larceny, and sentenced, as a third felony offender, to serve a term of 5 to 20 years. One of the prior convictions on which relator was sentenced as a third felony offender, was a 1948 conviction, upon his plea of guilty, in the Superior Court at Hartford, Connecticut, to an information charging him with theft of an automobile in violation of section 6115 of the Revised Statutes of Connecticut of 1930. This statute, however, does not require proof that the object stolen was of any value. In the absence of such requirement, the theft, if committed in the State of New York, would not constitute a felony within the meaning of section 1941 of the Penal Law (cf. Penal Law, § 1296, 1298, 1299'; People v. Olah, 300 N. Y. 96). Accordingly, the sentence as a third felony offender, insofar as it is based upon said prior conviction in Connecticut, was improperly imposed. Ughetta, Acting P. J., Christ, Brennan, Hill and Rabin, JJ., concur.