State v. Heinz

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of the larceny of an engineer’s transit of the value of more than $20.

The complaint on which the defendant was arrested was filed November 12, 1925. The information charged that the larceny had been committed on June 1, 1921. To avoid the statute of limitations, the information charged—

“That ever since the commission of the offense herein charged, the said defendant Frank Heinz concealed the fact of the crime, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and…