McHUGH v. STATE

50913.

136 Ga. App. 57 (1975)

220 S.E.2d 69

McHUGH v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided October 7, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Bonner, Jr., for appellant.

William H. Ison, District Attorney, J. W. Bradley, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.


STOLZ, Judge.

The basis of this appeal from the conviction of criminal attempt to commit burglary is the contended material, hence fatal, variance between the allegation in the indictment of an "attempt to force door open causing burglar alarm to sound on the office of Dr. Clyde Harrison" and proof that the alarm was activated by an attempt to knock in a window.

"`In criminal law an unnecessarily minute description of a necessary fact must be proved...

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