People v. Restenblatt

The defendant is before the court upon two indictments for false pretences. Counsel for the accused moves to quash both indictments, upon the ground that they •were found without any proofs of the commission of the ■offences preferred.

On the argument of the case by Mr. Graham for the prisoner, and the District Attorney for the people, it was conceded and agreed on the one side and on the other, that the preliminary affidavits of the complaining witnesses, which accompany the indictment, contained all the testimony given before the grand jury, and on which they acted in ordering these bills. I…