People v. Handibode

These two appeals, which have been consolidated, involve (1) a discharge of defendant after the allowance of a motion in arrest of judgment on a charge of drunken driving and (2) the quashing of a second information * based on the same charge of drunken driving.

In the first case, after a bench trial and a finding of guilty, defendant moved in arrest of judgment on the ground that the copy of the complaint given defendant “did not have Section 47 UAÉT.” We infer the purport of this motion to be that a crime was not charged. However, the original complaint did contain the additional language…