- duplicity in indictment or information
- Charging two different and distinct offenses in one count. Frohwerk v United States, 249 US 204, 63 L Ed 561, 39 S Ct 249; 27 Am J1st Indict § 124.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
duplicity in indictment or information
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