State v. Jacobi

PHELPS, Justice.

An information was duly filed in the superior court of Gila County against defendant Ernest Jacobi on April 27, 1951, charging him with grand theft, a felony. Thereafter and on June 20 the defendant was arraigned before that court. A plea of not guilty was entered and the cause was then set for trial on June the 25th. At the time of arraignment and plea defendant filed a motion to quash the information upon the ground that it did “not charge defendant with the commission of an offense.” The cause was then assigned to the Honorable J. Smith Gibbons, Judge of the superior court…