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2021 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 45. Appeal; Stay of Execution; Postconviction Remedy
§ 4501. Formal defects and clerical errors.

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11 DE Code § 4501. (2021)
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§ 4501. Formal defects and clerical errors.

In a criminal case, judgment shall not be reversed for any clerical misprision or formal defect, if the record contains substantial ground for judgment.

The omission of the words “with force and arms” shall be deemed a defect in form merely.

Code 1852, § 2968;  Code 1915, § 4835;  Code 1935, § 5326;  11 Del. C. 1953, § 4501; 
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