Slater v. Hogan

Petitioner seeks removal of the trial of a criminal indictment from the Court of General Sessions to this court pursuant to section 344 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This section authorizes such a removal “ for good cause shown.” The cause relied upon by petitioner is that the trial will present *218novel and weighty questions, principally of law, with which this court is better equipped to deal than the Court of General Sessions. The indictment is pursuant to section 487-a of the Penal Law, a statute dealing with the unauthorized placing out of children for adoption. As the statute is new,…