People v. Burt

The defendant Oscar Pinder previously obtained an inspection of the grand jury minutes under an order of the Supreme Court, the indictment having been found by a Supreme Court *167grand jury, and now brings this motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that the evidence adduced before the grand jury does not constitute a crime and upon the further ground that illegal and improper evidence was adduced before the grand jury.

An examination of the minutes of the grand jury discloses that at about three o’clock in the morning of December 18, 1938, a police officer in the city of New York…