People v. Nathan

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• holding that section 111-5 allows amendment at any time “when the defect in the charge is a matter of form”
• the particular details of the means that the defendant allegedly used do not constitute essential elements of the offense of aggravated battery
• the particular details of the means that the defendant allegedly used do not constitute essential elements of the offense of aggravated battery
• the particular details of the means that the defendant allegedly used do not constitute essential elements of the offense of aggravated battery
• when the essential elements of an offense are properly charged but the manner in which the offense is committed is incorrectly alleged, the error is merely formal
• State’s amendment to the indictment to “change[ ] the manner in which defendant committed” (emphasis omitted) aggravated battery “did not alter any essential element of the indictment”

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