People v. Campbell

On February 3, 1966 I granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment charging him with the crime of abduction (N. Y. L. J., Feb. 8, 1966, p. 18, col. 1). I reach the same conclusion but on other grounds. That decision is recalled and this one is substituted.

In the Grand Jury the complainant testified that she knew the defendant for six months; on November 29,1965, they decided to get married; later that day they drove to Hagerstown, Maryland; they were married on December 2, 1965 at the Arden Methodist Church by a clergyman to whom she had given her age as 18; she did not have her…