Court Opinion

ID: 9544006
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:51:17.917646+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:11:45.096789
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DeBRULER, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
Two counts in cause no. S-5219 were identical. The conduct alleged in both is the same. The conduct alleged in both is said to have occurred within the same time frame. The victim is the same. The substantive criminal statute is the same in both. I view their identity as a basis for dismissal of one of them as a matter of law.
In Merry v. State (1975), 166 Ind.App. 199, 335 N.E.2d 249, the prosecution charged in a single count that the defendant had on numerous occasions between December, 1970, and September 1973, had sexual intercourse with a minor daughter. The court accepted the pleading as correct. *789In Hoehn v. State (1984), Ind.App., 472 N.E.2d 926, the court dealt with a single charge that alleged that the offense took place in May or June of 1983. Here we do not deal with a single count, but with dual counts of identical form.
I would reverse one of these two convie-tions under S-5219, and remand for dismissal of the count upon which such conviction was based. Otherwise I concur.