Bufkin v. State

in which MEYERS, PRICE, HOLCOMB, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

Our “on or about” jurisprudence recognizes that it is often impractical to require an indictment to specify (or the State to prove) the exact time that a crime occurred. 1 But in granting the State leeway regarding the time the offense occurred, that jurisprudence has created some subsidiary issues that we are occasionally called upon to address. Most commonly, we have been called upon to address how to handle what are clearly multiple instances of conduct that each appear to satisfy the indictment’s allegations. 2 The present case…