People v. White

The defendant has been, indicted by the Orange County Grand Jury and charged with the crime of mnrder in the first degree, and is at present awaiting trial. Prior to the finding of the indictment, the defendant had been accorded, at his request, a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Peter B. Bush of the Town of Monroe, as a result of which hearing the defendant was held for the action of the Grand Jury and committed to the county jail on November 28, 1958.

Thereafter, and prior to a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by defendant’s counsel, the Grand Jury handed up its…