162 Ind. App. 411 - Belcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
March 1989
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. State · Beyerline v. State · Sanford v. State · Bruce v. State · Dean v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“(a) an affidavit must charge in direct and unmistakable terms the offense with which the defendant is accused; (b) if there is a reasonable doubt as to what offense(s) are set forth in the affidavit, that doubt should be resolved in favor of the defendant; and (c) where the defendant is convicted of an offense not within the charge, the conviction may not stand for the reason the defendant is entitled to limit his defense to those matters with which he stands accused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. State · Maynard v. State
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