People v. Howell

The provocative question here presented is whether a defendant is without any practical remedy in the situation where he is indicted upon clearly insufficient evidence, is denied an inspection of the minutes of the Grand Jury that returned the indictment and is thereafter convicted upon the strength of evidence obtained by the People subsequent to the indictment.

*163Indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree, defendant Howell was charged with having been an accomplice of, and having acted in concert with, one Eyan in the premeditated and deliberate murder of a certain Lewis, a labor…