Case ID: ind_56/html/0212-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Biddle, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Buckner v. The State.
    Ckimnal Law.—Trial.—Arrest of Judgment.—Where the record in a criminal prosecution contains no indictment or other charge against the defendant, judgment upon a finding therein against him should be arrested.
    From the Morgan Circuit Court.
    
      G. W. Grubbs, M. II. Parks and J. II. Jordan, for appellant.
    
      A. M. Cunning, Prosecuting Attorney, and C. A. Bus-kirk, Attorney General, for the State.
   Biddle, J.

The transcript in this case contains certain proceedings concerning an indictment, and a conviction for some offence, but of what character we are unable to say. There is no indictment, no affidavit or information, nor any presentment, or pleading, or paper of any kind, upon which to base a criminal prosecution. Motion in arrest of judgment overruled. Exception. The conviction can not be upheld.

The judgment is reversed, and cause remanded, with instructions to sustain the motion in ayrest of judgment.

Petition for a rehearing overruled.