SLEDGE v. STATE

No. 1214-95.

953 S.W.2d 253 (1997)

Roger Dale SLEDGE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

September 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Ford, Fort Worth, for appellant.

M. Susan Goggan, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

KELLER, Judge.

Appellant has presented the issue in this case as involving a clash between the right to indictment by grand jury and the "on or about" pleading convention often used in cases involving sexual assault of a child. According to appellant, the question is whether the State may obtain a conviction by proof of a different act from the act...

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