2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 16 - Criminal Proceedings
Code of Criminal Procedure
Article 5 - Commencement of Criminal Action
Part 2 - Indictments and Informations
§ 16-5-202. Requisites of information - form

(1) The information is sufficient if it can be understood therefrom:

(a) That it is presented by the person authorized by law to prosecute the offense;

(b) That the defendant is identified therein, either by name or by the defendant's patterned chemical structure of genetic information, or described as a person whose name is unknown to the informant;

(c) That the offense was committed within the jurisdiction of the court or is triable therein;

(d) That the offense charged is set forth with such degree of certainty that the court may pronounce judgment upon a conviction.

(2) The information may be in the following form:

:u000 STATE OF COLORADO :u1680 )

:u1680 ) ss.

:u000 County of................................................ :u1680 )

In the ....... Court ....... The People of the State of Colorado, against ....... A ....... B ....... C ....... D ........, district attorney within and for the ......... judicial district of the state of Colorado, in the county of ......... in the state aforesaid, in the name and by the authority of the people of the state of Colorado, informs the court that A ....... B ....... on the ....... day of ........ A.D. 20 ...., at the said county of .........., did (here state the offense) against the peace and dignity of the people of the state of Colorado.

:u600 C ............................................ :u1920 D ...........................................

:u1920 District Attorney.

or C ...................... D ......................,District Attorney,

by H ..................... M ......................,Deputy.

(3) An information may be filed using the language of the statute defining the offense, including either conjunctive or disjunctive clauses. Pleading in either the conjunctive or the disjunctive shall place a defendant on notice that the prosecution may rely on any or all of the alternatives alleged.

(4) A court shall not refuse to accept a complaint or information that contains the requirements of this section.