People v. Coombs

Defendant was informed against for the crime of perjury alleged to have been committed in register ing as a voter. When called upon to plead in the superior court he demurred to the information and also filed a motion to set it aside upon the following grounds: That prior to the filing of the information against him he had not been legally-committed by a magistrate because of the insufficiency of the complaint filed in the magistrate’s court. This alleged insufficiency consisted in the claim that the said complaint was not based upon the personal knowledge of the complaining witness; that no…