18 Misc. 2d 427 | New York County Courts | 1959
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Special Sessions, Town of Liberty, convicting defendant, after trial, of violating subdivision 3 of section 56 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, a traffic infraction commonly known as speeding (Vehicle and Traffic Law, § 2, subd. 29).
The return and amended or further return indicate that the information was not sworn to by the informant before the Justice of the Peace in question, although the Justice apparently signed the jurat thereon at some time other than when the informant affixed his signature.
An information is defined by statute as ‘ ‘ the allegation made to a magistrate, that a person has been guilty of some designated crime ” (Code Crim. Pro., § 145). Judicial construction has decreed that such an information must be made under oath (People v. Scott, 3 N Y 2d 148, 151-152; People ex rel. Livingston v. Wyatt, 186 N. Y. 383, 391; Matter of Bennett, 258 App. Div. 368, 370; People v. Sledge, 192 Misc. 934). The same requirements in regard to an oath should be observed in regard to ah
Conviction reversed, information dismissed and fine to be remitted. Submit order.