What is the test for pleading in a criminal pleading?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Midgeley v. Bacon, 1911 CanLII 170 (SK QB):
I might also refer to the statement of Cotton, L.J., in Philips v. Philips (1878), 4 Q.B.D., at p. 139, 48 L.J.Q.B. 135: “What particulars are to be stated must depend on the facts of each case. But in my opinion it is absolutely essential that the pleading, not to be embarrassing to the defendants, should state those facts which will put the defendants on their guard and tell them what they have to meet when the case comes on for trial.”
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