Price, Jimmy Don

OPINION

P.J., MEYERS, PRICE, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, and COCHRAN, JJ„ joined.

In this case, we address whether the statute defining the offense of continuous sexual abuse of a young child permits a defendant to be convicted both of that offense and of a criminal attempt to commit a predicate offense under that statute. See Tex. Penal Code §§ 15.01(a); 21.02(b), (c), (e).1 The court of appeals answered that question in the negative by examining the statute’s language and determining that the Legislature could not have intend*604ed to permit both convictions because that outcome would violate a…