Court Opinion

ID: 9540268
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:14:10.590931+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:48.163628
License: Public Domain

OPINION CONCURRING IN RESULT
Hoffman, J.
I concur in result only.
This case should be affirmed solely on the basis of IC 1971, 35-3.1-l-6(a)(3), (Burns Code Ed.), which states that an indictment or information is defective when the statute defining the crime charged is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid.
IC 1971, 35-3.1-l-4(a)(l), (Burns Code Ed.), provides that the court may, upon motion of the defendant, dismiss the indictment or information on the ground set out in 35-3.1-1-6, and further *265provides in 35-3.1-l-4(b), that said motion shall be made prior to arraignment and plea.
Appellant herein having failed to file his motion prior to arraignment and plea is precluded from raising the constitutionality of the crime charged.
NOTE — Reported at 367 N.E.2d 25.