People v. Woods

Defendant has been indicted for grand larceny in the first degree, criminally buying and receiving stolen property and criminally concealing and withholding stolen and wrongfully acquired property. This is a motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that it is based in part on the introduction of illegal evidence before the Grand Jury.

At the preliminary examination in the Criminal Court, the complaining witness, Maura Singer, a resident of Ohio, testified to the theft of certain articles well over the value of $500 from her husband’s automobile parked on Willow Street in Brooklyn. This…