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Certain formal defects shall not stay or reverse judgment after verdict.
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32. No judgment after verdict upon any indictment or information for any felony or misdemeanor shall be stayed or reversed for want of a similiter, nor by reason that the jury process has been awarded to a wrong officer upon an insufficient suggestion, nor for any misnomer or misdescription of the officer returning such process, or of any of the jurors, nor because any person has served upon the jury who has not been returned as a juror by the sheriff or other officer; and where the offence charged shall be an offence theretofore created by any statute, or subjected to a greater degree of punishment, or excluded from the benefit of clergy, by any statute, the indictment or information shall after verdict be held sufficient, if it describe the offence in the words of the statute creating the offence, or prescribing the punishment, or excluding the offender from the benefit of clergy.
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