Ex parte Thomas

The petitioner is restrained of his liberty under a sentence, by the Court of Criminal Correction, of imprisonment in the city work-house for the term of one year, for the crime of petit larceny. He claims his release on the ground that *25the court never acquired jurisdiction to try and convict him.

The proceedings were commenced by an information, so called, which was not signed or filed by any public officer, but was signed and sworn to by a private citizen.

Our State Constitution declares that “ no person shall, for felony, be proceeded against criminally otherwise than by indictment; * * * in…