Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Adolph Kromol, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1947-01-24
Citations: 271 A.D.2d 648
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Adolph Kromol, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 271
Pages: 648–649

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Adolph Kromol, Appellant.
First Department,
January 24, 1947.
Louis B. Brodsky for appellant.
George Tilser of counsel (Herman J. Fliederblmn with him on the brief; Samuel J. Foley, District Attorney, attorney), for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The information was not rendered invalid by misspelling a word (Code Crim. Pro., § 684). The sentence was not excessive in view of defendant's record. No showing was made which would warrant granting his motion for leave to withdraw his plea of guilty and enter a plea of not guilty.
The attack on the information for failure to contain the signature of the district attorney seems to arise from the misconception that the district attorney must sign an information in the Magistrate's Court. Where a magistrate sits as a Court of Special Sessions, on consent of the defendant, the trial may be had on the information or complaint before the magistrate, made by a complainant not the district attorney, and need not take the form of an information for Special Sessions signed by the district attorney (N. Y. City Crim. Cts. Act, § 131; People v. Wickes, 172 N. Y. S. 164).
The judgment and the order appealed from should be affirmed.
Martin, P. J., Cohn, Callahan, Peck and Van Voorhis, JJ., concur.
Judgment and order unanimously affirmed.