Whether or not it was "wrong" depends on the specific code section cited. What code section was allegedly violated?
The problem here is that you never appeared in court as scheduled, and no one took care of the citation as required. The time to challenge the matter may well have passed. About all you can do is call the court and see if there is some process that you can follow to go back before a court. However, I strongly suspect that this is not going to happen and that the matter will be satisfied by the payment to debt collections. Now everyone just has to wait until the collections agency sends word to the court.

