State v. Williams

The defendant was charged with setting fire to the jail, was “ found guilty, as charged in the indictment,” and after being sentenced he appealed.

The first question presented is: “Had the judge who presided at the trial the right, after motion filed in arrest of judgment — the grounds set forth in the motion being that the records or minutes of the court did not show either that the information upon which the prosecution was based had been filed with the consent of the court, or that it had been filed at all (it being true that the minutes made ho mention of either)-— and after the jury had…