New York Court of Appeals

The People of the State of New York Ex Rel. Max Pincus, Appellants, Against William A. Adams, as Warden of…

June 2, 1937274 N.Y. 447

Summary

The Court affirmed the convictions, holding that the 1936 amendments to New York's criminal procedure and penal law—allowing joinder of similar or connected offenses in a single indictment and permitting concurrent sentences—are constitutional, do not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause, and do not infringe Article I, section 6 of the New York Constitution.