An error in the statement of offence in an indictment that refers to the offence as amended rather than as it stood at the time of the alleged offending does not invalidate the indictment where the particulars clearly confine the charge to the correct elements, and the error does not cause the trial to miscarry. Submissions that defence counsel was misled by such an error require evidentiary support, not mere conjecture.
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