substance of indictment

substance of indictment
The essential allegations. When an indictment is adjudged to be insufficient in substance, it is because it lacks something essential to make a legal charge of crime. Certain portions of an indictment are formal and some substantial. The statement or body of the indictment must set forth all the ingredients of the offense, and charge the defendant directly and positively with the commission of it. This is the substance of the charge, because essential to it. State v Burgdoerfer, 107 Mo 1, 17 SW 646.

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