State v. Truett

MOISE, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Louisiana from a judgment of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Section “B”, which sustained defendant’s plea of prescription to a bill of information charging him with possession of narcotics, a crime denounced by LSA-Revised Statutes, 40:962.

The pertinent chronological facts of the case are as follows:

July 20,1951 —An affidavit was filed.

July 24, 1951 — A bond was furnished by defendant.

*959August 9, 1951 — A bill of information was filed.

Sept. 5, 1951 —Arraignment was continued on motion of the State.

Sept. 17, 1951…