Per Curiam.
The petitioner urges that he was deprived of his constitutional rights on the ground that the officer who filed the complaint and the Municipal Court charged him with murder in the first degree when neither had the right or power to do so.
Neither the complaint of the arresting officer nor the Municipal Court sets the degree or actually determines the charge on which an accused is prosecuted. This is solely the function of the grand jury...
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