People ex rel. Battista v. Christian

Prior to 1925 section 222 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provided that all crimes prosecuted in Supreme Court, County Court or a City Court must be by indictment. In 1925 (Chap. 597) there were added to the section provisions that where a defendant had been held to answer to any of these courts, the court might on application in writing of the defendant direct an information to be filed against him for the offense for which he stood charged, and that the district attorney should file such information. A further slight amendment was made in 1927. (Chap. 597.) It is common knowledge that…