G.V.C. v. State

JOINER, Judge.

G.V.C. was tried on a single-count indictment charging first-degree sexual abuse, see § 13A-6-66, Ala.Code 1975, and was subsequently convicted. G.V.C. now appeals, arguing that a discrepancy between the indictment and the jury-verdict form— along with the trial court’s subsequent correction of the verdict form — require reversal of his conviction. We affirm.

In November 2011, G.V.C. was tried by way of a single-count indictment charging first-degree sexual abuse; specifically, the indictment charged that G.V.C. “did knowingly subject M.S. to sexual contact, to-wit: by fondling…