State v. Christopher

I concur in the result reached by the majority and in the principles of law which I understand the majority to rely upon in reaching its holding. As I understand the majority opinion, the vice in the State’s case here is that the State chose in drafting its indictment to tie itself to the one specific date of 12 December 1980 and to allege that the defendant “did feloniously agree, plan, combine, conspire and confederate” on that date. I further understand the majority opinion to interpret the use of the verbs “agree,” “plan,” “combine,” “conspire” and “confederate” to have caused the…