Case ID: ind_48/html/0251-02.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

Jackson v. The State.
    'CaiumAi, Law.—Circuit Court.—Affidavit.—A prosecution for a misdemeanor commenced in the circuit court hy affidavit without an information can not he sustained.
    From the Switzerland Circuit Court.
    
      J. J.. Works, J. D. Works, and W. M. Smith, for appellant.
    
      J. O. Denny, Attorney General, and O. A. Buskirk, Attorney General, for the State.
   Biddle, J.

State prosecution commenced in the circuit court, by affidavit without an information, for obstructing a highway. Motion to quash the affidavit overruled, exception. Trial and conviction. Motion for a new trial overruled, and* exception. Appeal.

In the case of Byrne v. The State, 47 Ind. 120, it was held that a prosecution for a misdemeanor, commenced in the circuit court by affidavit without an information, could not be sustained. According to that decision, this case is erroneous.

The judgment is reversed, cause remanded, with instructions 4o sustain the motion to quash the affidavit.