Copeland v. Packard

How courts have described this case

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• an element is material to the offense if the indictment does not state an offense without it
• state not permitted to prove a different theory of defendant’s felon status than it alleged in the indictment in prosecution for felon in possession of firearm
• “The test for whether a variance concerns a material element depends on whether the indictment states an offense without the allegation.” (Internal quotation marks and brackets omitted.)
• construing § 575.030.1(4)'s Oregon counterpart

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).