United States v. Kenneth R. Mastrandrea

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• “Allegations in an indictment that are not necessary to establish a violation of the statute in issue are mere surplusage and may be disregarded if the remaining allegations are sufficient to charge a crime.”
• Indictment alleged that the defendants “for the purpose of executing the aforesaid scheme and artifice to defraud, did knowingly cause to be transported in interstate commerce” a check
• surplus indictment language may be disregarded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).