300 Ga. App. 459 - MacHado v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “[w]hile instructing the jury that a crime can be committed in a manner different from that charged in the indictment can constitute reversible error, a reversal is not mandated [when], as here, the charge as a whole limits the jury’s consideration to the specific manner of committing the crime alleged in the indictment. 23”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wheeler v. State · Adams v. State

2. “A criminal defendant’s right to due process may be endangered when ... an indictment charges the defendant with committing a crime in a specific manner and the trial court’s jury instruction defines the crime as an act which may be committed in a manner other than the manner alleged in the indictment. The giving of a jury instruction which deviates from the indictment violates due process where there is evidence to support a conviction on the unalleged manner of committing the crime and the jury is not instructed to limit its consideration to the manner specified in the indictment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 303 Ga. App. 117 - Martin v. State