People v. Haney

Appeal from a judgment of conviction of the County Court, Otsego County, entered following a jury verdict of guilty of the crime of assault in the second degree. Appellant initially urges that reversal is mandated because he did not obtain a requested preliminary hearing pursuant to section 190' of the Code of Criminal Procedure. *699We cannot agree. The stay of proceedings obtained by appellant having been removed prior to the submission of the case to the Grand Jury, the subsequently obtained indictment upon which conviction was based was not affected by the asserted deficiency (People v.…