People v. Williams

These are separate cases raising questions of the original jurisdiction of the Family Court under the new constitutional provision and implementing statute, effective September 1, 1962 (N. Y. Const., art. VI, § 13; Family Ct. Act, § 812). Under these provisions the Family Court is given ‘ ‘ exclusive original jurisdiction * * * over any proceeding concerning acts which would constitute disorderly conduct or an assault between spouses or between parent and child or between members of the same family or household ” (id.).

The purpose of these enactments was to remove in the first instance from…