Bradley Kelton Crenshaw v. State

The majority has done exactly what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has instructed it to do, as it must. Because I am not the author of the majority opinion, I express my very fundamental disagreement in appropriately respectful dissent.

On original submission, this court held that when the State, in its charging instrument, tells the defendant what act of his the State will prove was unlawful, the State is bound by that pleading.1 (I attach the original, unpublished opinion as an appendix.) That is, when the State told Appellant that it was going to prove that he committed the offense of…