Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Sydney J. Schwartz, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1962-10-25
Citations: 12 N.Y.2d 753
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Sydney J. Schwartz, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 753–755

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Sydney J. Schwartz, Appellant.
Argued September 27, 1962;
decided October 25, 1962.
Sydney J. Schwarts, appellant in person.
William Cahn, District Attorney (Henry P. De Vine of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed in the following memorandum: The defendant, a lawyer, was adjudged guilty, after trial, of the traffic infraction of speeding and fined $10 (Vehicle and Traffic Law, § 1180, subd. 4; § 1800, subd. [a]). If he desired to challenge the validity of his conviction, he was under the necessity of moving in arrest of judgment or, as was done in People v. Gull (10 N Y 2d 123), of appealing from the judgment of conviction rendered against him. An application in the nature of a writ of error coram nobis may not be employed to perform the office of an appeal or of a motion in arrest of judgment. (See, e.g., People v. Sullivan, 3 N Y 2d 196, 198.)
Concur: Judges Dye, Full, Froessel, Burke and Foster. Chief Judge Desmond dissents in the following opinion in which Judge Van Voorhis concurs.