State v. Young

Chief Jfistiqe DURRANT,

opinion of the Court:

Introduction

{1 This appeal raises the same question presented in State v. Smith, 1 which we issued today-namely, whether a district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to accept a defendant's guilty plea when the defendant was not bound over following either a preliminary hearing or an express waiver of the right to a preliminary hearing. As we noted in that opinion, a district court obtains subject matter jurisdiction when an information is filed. 2 Consonant with Smith, we hold in this opinion that the district court had jurisdiction to accept…