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CRIME
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ordered by the court or furnished voluntarily under the conditions above stated.

(4) Each supplemental bill shall operate to amend any and all previous bills and a new bill shall supersede any previous bill.

(5) When any bill of particulars is furnished it shall be filed of record and a copy of such bill given to the defendant upon his request.

§ 9. Insuffiency, or Inconsistency Between Indictment or Information and Bill of Particulars-Effect of.] If it appears from the bill of particulars furnished under Section 8 that the particulars therein stated together with any particulars appearing in the indictment or information do not constitute the offense charged in the indictment or information or that the defendant did not commit that offense, or that a prosecution for that offense is barred by the statute of limitations, the court may, and on motion of the defendant or of the prosecuting attorney shall, quash the indictment or information unless the prosecuting attorney shall furnish another bill of particulars which either by itself or together with any particulars appearing in the indictment or information so states the particulars as to make it appear that they constitute the offense charged in the indictment or information and that the offense was committed by the defendant and that it is not barred by the statute of limitations.

§ 10. Name of Defendant.] (1) In an indictment, information or bill of particulars it is sufficient for the purpose of identifying the defendant to state his true name, or to state the name, appellation or nickname by which he has been or is known, or, if no better way of identifying him is practicable, to state a fictitious name, or to describe him as a person whose name is unknown, or in any other manner. In stating the true name or the name by which the defendant has been or is known or a fictitious name, it is sufficient to state a surname, a surname and one or more given names, or a surname and one or more abbreviations or initials of a given name or names.

(2) If the defendant is a corporation, it is sufficient to state the corporation name of the defendant, or any name or designation by which it has been or is known or by which it may be identified, without an averment that it is a corporation or that it was incorporated according to law.

(3) If in the course of the proceedings the true name of a person indicted or informed against otherwise than by his true name is disclosed by the defendant to the court or appears in some other manner to the court, the court shall cause the true name of the defendant to be inserted in the indictment, information or bill of particulars and record wherever his name appears otherwise therein, and the proceedings shall be continued against him in his true name.