Commonwealth v. Belcher

JACOBS, President Judge:

In this appeal by the Commonwealth from the lower court’s dismissal of simple assault and disorderly conduct charges, only one question need be answered: Is a district attorney’s failure to sign an information, in counties where the indicting grand jury has been abolished, a mere formal defect which may be cured by amendment or does the absence of the signature render the purported information void ab initio ? We agree with Judge DAVENPORT of the court below that an unsigned information is a nullity; we therefore affirm.

Appellant, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,…