27 Okla. Crim. 104 - Webb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1950
3 state decisions
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““The statute above quoted is not in conflict with the Constitution and is operative so far as it relates to amendments in matters of form after the jury is impaneled, matters not essential to a complete statement of the offense. The question before us is therefore reduced to an inquiry as to whether the charging of the street number in the information was a matter of form or one of substance. “It has been held that it is unnecessary in a prosecution for keeping and maintaining a common nuisance that the information particularly designate the place of the commission of the offense, more than to charge that it was committed within the county and state where the prosecution is had. State v. Kelly, 22 N. D. 5 , 132 N. W. 223 , Ann. Cas. 1913E, 974; 20 R.C.L 486. “ 'Substance’ may be defined as that which is essential; hence when an information is adjudged insufficient in substance it is because it lacks something essential to make a legal charge of crime. 7 Words and Phrases, First Series, 6737 [40 Words and Phrases, Perm. Ed., p. 488]; Bouvier’s Law Dict., Rawle’s First Rev. 1060. “This being true, it would appear that the allegation that this nuisance was maintained at a particular number was not an essential averment and therefore not a matter of substance, but one of form merely. The allegation, if made, should be supported by proof, and, if it had appeared to the court that the allegation as made misled the defendant to his hurt, the permission to amend should not have been ”
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