State of Tennessee v. Steven Shell

OPINION

James Curwood Witt, Jr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which D. Kelly Thomas, Jr., and Robert L. Holloway, Jr., JJ., joined.

In this appeal as of right by the State, the State challenges the ruling of the trial court dismissing the case as barred by the misdemeanor statute of limitations. Because no document in the record qualifies as a valid arrest warrant and no other event occurred to timely commence the prosecution in this case, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Meager would be a generous word to describe the record on appeal. The affidavit of complaint shows that…