People ex rel. Rao v. Adams

The crime that is being investigated by the Grand Jury in the Court of General Sessions is murder or *641homicide perpetrated, it is claimed for political purposes, in a brutal assault on the morning of Election Day, November 5, 1946.

There was no lack of general jurisdiction ab initio. The committing judge had jurisdiction over the persons of the relators and over the criminal proceeding pending in his court, and it is clear he considered not only the affidavits of the police officer but also the testimony under oath taken by the judge before relators’ appearance, the interrogation under oath of…