McGahan v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the State’s amendment of a complaint charging “attempting to destroy evidence” to include “attempting to destroy and conceal evidence” (continued...) – 11 – 2797 Following McGahan, the Criminal Rules Committee recommended that Criminal Rule 7(e
• applying harmless error review to improper amendment that went beyond form in violation of permissive statute
• applying harmless error review to improper amend- ment that went beyond form in violation of permis- sive statute
• amendment altered charge from attempting to destroy evidence to attempting to destroy and conceal evidence improper
• addressing required showing for prejudice when indictment is amended

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Carman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-01-28· cited 42×
• State v. Ayala
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2017-02-07· cited 18×
• York v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-06-10· cited 12×
• Bowers v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2000-06-02· cited 7×
• Houston v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-12-06· cited 2×
• State v. Ayala
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2015-01-13
• Jimmy Rogers Aketachunak v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2025-01-31

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Price v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1968-02-13· cited 29×
• Yarbor v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-02-23· cited 27×
• Nickerson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-12-30· cited 21×
• State v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-11-13· cited 7×