State v. Smith

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused, J. Emory Adams, together with James Monroe Smith, Seymour Weiss and Louis G. Lesage, were jointly charged in a bill of information, in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, with having embezzled the sum of $75,000 belonging to the State of Louisiana. The defendant, Adams, filed in limine a plea of prescription on the ground that more than one year had elapsed since the date of the commission of the alleged offense, and the date that the alleged offense became known to an officer charged with the duty of instituting prosecution, and the date of the filing of the present…