State v. Buckley

OPINION

MEYERSON, Presiding Judge.

The issues raised in this appeal are whether (1) the state’s failure to file a formal information charging appellant with a crime voids his subsequent conviction and sentence which were based on his guilty plea, and (2) appellant may raise the issue of lack of subject matter jurisdiction for the first time on appeal from his revocation of probation.

A complaint was filed against appellant in justice court on July 17, 1985, charging him with robbery, a class 4 felony. Appellant waived his preliminary hearing and was bound over to the Maricopa County Superior…