State of Indiana v. Augustine Armando Gomez, Jr.

Summary

The court reversed the trial court’s dismissal of both handgun-carrying charges and remanded for further proceedings. It held that the charging information, read together with the probable-cause affidavit, sufficiently notified Gomez of the Illinois felony conviction underlying both charges and alleged facts constituting Indiana offenses. The court further held that the handgun statute’s general reference to a prior felony does not require a substantial-similarity comparison under the reference statute, so the constitutional challenge to that requirement was unnecessary to resolve.