In re New York Civil Liberties Union

The New York Civil Liberties Union, organized for the protection of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights, seeks an order directing the court stenographer to furnish it with a transcript of the court’s charge to the jury in the trial of People v. Surrey.

*331A brief recital of the events involved in the Surrey case will furnish the setting for this application. The salient facts, as presented by the prosecution and undisputed by the defense, are substantially the following:

Surrey, a member of the police department of the City of New York, attired in civilian clothes, was a passenger in a taxicab…