People ex rel. Odell v. Hall

The relator, James Henry Odell, after a preliminary examination before the City Judge of Ithaca acting as a magistrate, has been held to await the action of a grand jury upon a charge of grand larceny, first degree, in the alleged theft of an automobile. He brings this habeas corpus proceeding claiming that the evidence before the magistrate was not sufficient to warrant holding him because there was no proof submitted that the crime charged had been committed, other than relator’s alleged written confession.

An information had been sworn to before the magistrate on July 26, 1953, by one…