Isom v. State

The Code, § 27-701, “was not intended to dispense with the substance of good pleading, nor to deny to one •accused of Crime the right to know enough of the’ particular facts constituting the alleged offense to be able to prepare for trial, nor to deprive him of the right to have an indictment perfect as to the ’essential■ elements of the crime charged.” O’Brien v. State, 109 Ga. 51, 53 (35 S. E. 112). The rule is well settled in this State that an indictment must not state any essential of the offense in the alternative, for pleadings which are in the alternative are defective in form, and…