People v. Shearer

The above-named defendant moves for a dismissal of the indictment presented against him by the September grand jury of Kings county and challenges the validity of its actions, upon the grounds that one of the members of said grand jury was a woman and, therefore, because of her sex, disqualified and ineligible to act as a member of that grand body. The sworn statement of Mrs. Julia Coblens, the grand juror in question, around whom is centered this casus belli, was filed April 22, 1938, in the office of the commissioner of jurors in Kings county and reads in part as follows: “ I do not claim…