Tarter v. Commonwealth

CAMMACK, Justice.

James Tarter is appealing from a judgment sentencing him to one year in prison on a charge of seducing Anna Smith. KRS 436.010(4), which covers the offense of seducing a female under 21 years of age, provides that all prosecutions thereunder shall be instituted within four years after the commission of the offense.

In February, 1953, the Russell County grand jury returned an indictment against Tarter, which reads in part as follows:

“ * * * on the-day of August, 1953, and before the finding of this indictment, (James Tarter) did unlawfully and feloniously under promise of…