What is the test for establishing that a conviction must be as certain in its allegations as it is its indictment?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from McGuire v. Saunderson, 1920 CanLII 273 (SK QB):
And again in Rex v. Hankey, [1905] 2 K.B. 687, 74 L.J.K.B. 922, the Chief Justice of England, Lord Alverstone, again refers to: “The important and salutary rule that a conviction must be as certain in its allegations as an indictment,” and holds that a conviction must allege in sufficiently clear terms what offence has been committed.
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