State v. Touchet

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The defendant was convicted of having stolen a coat and he has appealed. He urges in this, as he did in the lower court, the prescription of one year in bar of the action.

The crime is charged to have been committed on the 19th of April, 1892. The information against the accused was filed on September 12, 1898. It contained a declaration that it was filed within one year from the time that the information in relation thereto, came to the knowlege of a public officer having power to direct investigations and prosecutions.

Testimony was…