Opinion ID: 2417534
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Heading: 3(A Demurrer

Text: At the October 26, 1993 hearing for plea and arraignment, appellant demurred to the felony information on the ground that it failed to state probable cause. The trial court stated that the demurrer was effectively a motion to dismiss, summarily denied the demurrer because probable cause had previously been found, and entered a plea of not guilty. Appellant next argues that the denial of the demurrer was error. This argument is without merit. Lack of probable cause is not a statutory ground for a demurrer to an indictment, Ark.Code Ann. § 16-85-708 (1987), or, by implication, to an information. Cf. Neely v. State, 317 Ark. 312, 877 S.W.2d 589 (1994) (applying statute governing amendment of indictment, by implication, to amendment of a felony information).