State v. Stelly
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; W. P. Campbell, Judge. Antoine Stelly was indicted for obtaining money under false pretenses, and the State appeals from' a judgment quashing the indictment.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The defendant moved to quash the indictment against him for obtaining money under false pretenses, on the ground that the offense was barred by prescription. The indictment negatived the prescription by an allegation that the fact of the offense having been committed had been “made known to a public officer having the power to direct a public prosecution” only within the prescriptive period. On the trial ■of the motion to quash, evidence was taken, and it showed that the victim of the offense was a deputy sheriff, but that only within the prescriptive period he had learned that the pretense…
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