Holman v. the State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the instructions from the trial court must “sufficiently limit the jury’s consideration to the allegations and elements of the offense as charged in the indictment” (punctuation omitted)
• “[A]verments in an indictment as to the specific manner in which a crime was 2 The current version of OCGA § 16-5-21 (2018
• “[A]verments in an indictment as to the specific manner in which a crime was committed . . . must be proved as laid, or the failure to prove the same will amount to a fatal variance and a violation of the defendant’s right to due process of law.”
• “averments in an indictment as to the specific manner in which a crime was committed . . . must be proved as laid, or the failure to prove the same will amount to a fatal variance and a violation of the defendant’s right to due process of law”
• “[A]verments in an indictment as to the specific manner in which a crime was committed . . . must be proved as laid, or the failure to prove the same will amount to a fatal variance and a violation of the defendant’s right to due process of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).