People v. Stiehl

*722Opinion

ROBIE, Acting P. J.

After the magistrate held defendant John Melvin Stiehl to answer on a charge of receiving stolen property, the Placer County District Attorney’s Office took an information to the court to be filed. The court clerk stamped the information “received,” but not “filed,” and placed it in the file for one of defendant’s other cases. This mistake was discovered after the statutorily mandated time for filing an information had passed, and the trial court granted defendant’s subsequent motion to dismiss on the ground the information was not timely filed.

On appeal, the People…