People v. Pratt

The defendant moves alternatively to inspect the Grand Jury minutes of the testimony on which the indictment was found against him or to dismiss the indictment on the ground the Grand Jury was without jurisdiction to find it.

On June 10,1960 the defendant was charged before Justice of the Peace Chappell of the Town of Kirkland, Oneida County, with public intoxication and driving while intoxicated. The incident giving rise to the charges occurred in the Town of New Hartford.

The sequence of events following is given in the defendant’s moving affidavit: that Justice of the Peace Chappell released…