Plante v. State

Judge Arnold Shulman.

The appellant was tried on a three-count indictment charging him with child molestation, incest, and sodomy. The alleged victim in each instance was his then 13-year-old stepdaughter. The jury found the appellant guilty of child molestation but acquitted him of the other two charges. He brings this appeal from the denial of his motion for new trial.

The conduct on which the child molestation count was based was alleged to have occurred “between the 1st day of November, 1987, and the 14th day of October, 1988, the exact dates unknown. . . .” The child testified that the…