Prosecutor's information; form and content
§ 100.35 Prosecutor's information; form and content.
A prosecutor's information must contain the name of the local criminal court with which it is filed and the title of the action, and must be subscribed by the district attorney by whom it is filed. Otherwise it should be in the form prescribed for an indictment, pursuant to section 200.50, and must, in one or more counts, allege the offense or offenses charged and a plain and concise statement of the conduct constituting each such offense. The rules prescribed in sections 200.20 and 200.40 governing joinder of different offenses and defendants in a single indictment are also applicable to a prosecutor's information.
Must state the local criminal court, the title, and be subscribed by the DA. Otherwise it follows indictment form (§ 200.50) — counts alleging each offense plus a plain, concise statement of the conduct. Joinder rules §§ 200.20 and 200.40 apply. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 3 — The JG-22 Criminal Procedure Law and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.