Section II-17: Indictment or information - Preliminary examination - Prosecutions in courts not of record.

  No person shall be prosecuted criminally in courts of record
for felony or misdemeanor otherwise than by presentment or
indictment or by information.  No person shall be prosecuted for
a felony by information without having had a preliminary
examination before an examining magistrate, or having waived such
preliminary examination.  Prosecutions may be instituted in
courts not of record upon a duly verified complaint.