Amendment of indictment and filing of bill of particulars
Applied in 31 court decisions — leading case Gillie v. State (1991)
Most recently applied in Craytonia Badger v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction (October 2025)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) The prosecuting attorney or other attorney representing the state, with leave of the court, may amend an indictment as to matters of form or may file a bill of particulars.
(2) However, no indictment shall be amended nor bill of particulars filed so as to change the nature of the crime charged or the degree of the crime charged.
(3) All amendments and bills of particulars shall be noted of record.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.