State v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hehek, J.

On May 16, 1956 the respondent was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree on an indictment returned the prior February 8 charging that on April 17, 1951 he did “willfully, feloniously and of his malice, aforethought kill and murder Margaret Jones, also known as Margaret Brown.” Judgment was arrested, before sentence, for want of “jurisdiction of the offense,” it was found, because of the supposed bar of the statute of limitations; and the case is here by the State’s appeal under Article YI, Section Y, paragraph 1(c) of the 1947…