State v. Larose

This is an interlocutory appeal pursuant to V.R.A.P. 5(a). On June 13, 1982, the defendant was charged by information with willfully and maliciously procuring the burning of a barn on September 29, 1971, in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 503, second degree arson. After entering a plea of not. guilty at his arraignment, the-defendant filed.a motion to *493dismiss on the ground that the statute of limitations, 13 V.S.A. § 4501, barred his prosecution. The trial court certified the following question to this Court:

Does 13 V.S.A. § 4501 bar a prosecution brought pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 503, eleven years…