United States v. Craig A. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the victim's \character was in no way an essential element of the actual self-defense claim\
• failure to .identify a person in the indictment is insufficient to warrant reversal-“especially when no prejudice is'alleged”
• “[W]e require, at a minimum, that [an indictment] provide some means of pinning down the specific conduct at issue.”
• “[I]t is generally acceptable for the in‐ dictment to ‘track’ the words of the statute itself, so long as those words expressly set forth all the elements necessary to constitute the offense intended to be punished.”
• “[I]t is generally acceptable for the in‐ dictment to ‘track’ the words of the statute itself, so long as those words expressly set forth all the elements necessary to constitute the offense intended to be punished.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).