Sledge v. State

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 *254indictment 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 upon which the grand jury indicted—indeed by proof of an act which the State has labeled “extraneous.” An examination of the record, however, reveals that absolutely nothing exceptional…