People v. Scher

The defendant herein, who has been indicted in May, 1973 in an eight-count indictment for selling a dangerous drug, a barbiturate, to a police officer on two occasions in November, 1972, and for other lesser and included crimes in violation of various sections of article 220 of the Penal Law and section 3381 of the Public Health Law, moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that it was brought by a court without jurisdiction of the offense, the Special Narcotics Courts of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in the City of New York, County of New York.

The crimes with which…