372 So. 2d 533 - Hoffman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “When there is a bill of particulars, and when it specifies only an exact date upon which the offense occurred, the prosecution is limited, if objection be made, to proof of an offense occurring on that date and no other, under that particular Information; the effect of such a specification of date in a bill of particulars is to narrow the Indictment or Information as to the time within which the act or acts allegedly constituting the offense may be proved.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 397 So. 2d 288 - Hoffman v. State

2. “with full knowledge of the crime alleged against him and with knowledge of a technical error of one day's date on a pleading, to wait in ambush for the state until the jury is sworn then spring his trap is tantamount to asking the court to referee a game of hide and seek.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 397 So. 2d 288 - Hoffman v. State

3. “have to tell the state [the] defects in their case, until a jury is sworn.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 397 So. 2d 288 - Hoffman v. State