This is an appeal by the People from an order sustaining a demurrer and dismissing an indictment charging each of the defendants with being a common gambler in violation of section 970 of the Penal Law.
The ground of the demurrer was that the Grand Jury lacked jurisdiction to present the indictment because the Police Court had not been properly divested of its jurisdiction.
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