Key legal question
Whether the criminal courts violated the right to be heard and the indictment principle by considering an incapacity period longer than three days.
Extracted holding
No violation occurred because the accused knew the historical event and was heard on the later medical evidence; the contested fact was not decisive for the charge itself.
Extracted reasoning
The discrepancy concerned a detail relevant at most to sentencing or civil claims, not to the core identity of the offense. In addition, the defense had an effective opportunity at the hearing to comment on the new information, satisfying minimum constitutional guarantees.