Legal Opinion
People v. Jones
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Decided February 15, 1962PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtThomas Dickens, J.
In this coram nobis motion, defendant Jones questions the integrity and the propriety of the District Attorney in the official conduct of this prosecution instituted several years ago.
Defendant maintains the District Attorney had suppressed material evidence from the inquiring Grand Jury. Such evidence, contends defendant, indicates a homicide by misadventure, not, as charged here, a homicide by felony.
The homicide occurred at the time when defendant had snatched a pocketbook from the person of the woman, the victim of the homicide.
Other than the charge of suppression, the District Attorney…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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