People v. Satterthwaste

This is an application under paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 31 of the New York City Criminal Courts Act (L. 1910, ch. 659, as amd.) for a certificate that it is reasonable that the charges now pending against the defendant in the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York should be prosecuted by indictment.

This section provides that the Court of Special Sessions has exclusive jurisdiction of the trial of misdemeanor charges but that it shall be divested of such jurisdiction where “before the *34commencement of any such trial, a justice of the supreme court in the judicial…