HARRIS v. STATE

No. 42, September Term, 1950.

82 A.2d 387 (1951)

HARRIS v. STATE.

Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle.

June 1, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund N. Carpenter, of Richards, Layton and Finger, of Wilmington, for appellant.

John Metten, of Wilmington, for the State.

CAREY, J., sitting.


CAREY, Judge.

The record of the Court below plainly shows that the conviction was not based upon the information actually filed therein but was based upon a different charge verbally entered by the Court. An information, as the word is used in the Family Court Act, is a formal accusation of crime, differing from an indictment only in that it is presented by a prosecuting officer instead of a grand jury. U. S. v. Borger, C...

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