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p. 340In the Matter of the Application of Thomas O’Keefe, Petitioner, for a Peremptory Mandamus Order against Joseph H. Wilson, as Warden of Great Meadow Prison, Respondent.[1] Supreme Court, Washington County, July 20, 1934.
A. Stanley Copeland, for the petitioner.
John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney-General [L. M. Layden and William G. Healy, Assistant Attorneys-General, of counsel], for the relator.
When a prisoner is ordered resentenced he is not “ discharged from prison by pardon or otherwise, nor is he released therefrom on parole.” But if the resentence does not provide for his incarceration in a State prison, then he is discharged from prison, and thereupon becomes entitled to the twenty dollars, as provided for in section 125 of the Correction Law.
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The record shows that the County Court of Rockland county, May 7, 1934, in resentencing the prisoner imposed an indeterminate sentence and suspended the execution thereof. This amounted to a discharge from State prison. The peremptory mandamus order should be allowed.