Copsey v. State

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• holding that defendant was put in jeopardy during first trial for every alleged act of child sexual abuse during the time frame specified in the indictment because the jury could have convicted him on the basis of any one of those acts
• stating that the plea of former acquittal is designed to prevent a defendant “who has once survived his initial jeopardy from being ‘twice vexed’ by a fresh exposure to the hazard of conviction for that same offense”
• because the State prudently charged appellant with a single continuing offense from January 1, 1979, through November 1, 1984, appellant was placed in jeopardy for any sexual offense he perpetrated upon the victim at any time during that all embracing period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).