If you are on trial in front of a judge and the charge against you has more than one possible version of what you did, the judge can only find you guilty of one of those versions. When the court convicts you of a charge with different alternatives, it must choose just one of those alternatives. You can find more information about this by looking at the law from 1957.
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140: Procedure if charges to be heard together include new charges, or
"What happens when you get a new charge and you already have other charges against you"
142: Dealing with charge that fails to disclose range of penalties and previous convictions when required, or
"Fixing a charge that doesn't show possible penalties or your past convictions"
When convicting a defendant of a charge that includes alternative allegations, the court in a Judge-alone trial must limit that conviction to 1 of the alternatives charged.
