People v. Sansone

As above indicated, the crime charged against this defendant is a misdemeanor. The indictment was found on March twenty-eighth of this year. It seems that on March twenty-second of this year, six days before the indictment was found, chapter 83 of the Laws of 1933 went into effect. That enactment is a modification of section 183 of the Second Class Cities Law, and in part reads as follows: “ The police court shall have, hvthe first instance, exclusive jurisdiction to try and determine all charges of misdemeanor, committed within the city.”

The demurrer raises the point that inasmuch as the…