The People v. Mooney

In an information filed in the district court, the defendant, D. J. Mooney, was charged with a violation of section 3740, C. L. 1921, and, upon arraignment, plead not guilty. It was stipulated that the case might be tried to the court upon an agreed statement of facts, and without the intervention of a jury.

Upon the trial, the defendant moved that the case bé dismissed, and he be discharged, because, among other reasons, the statute under which the information was filed, and with the violation of which he was charged, was uncertain, ambiguous and indefinite, and did not “constitute a…