State v. Lebleu

HAMITER, Justice.

Defendant was indicted on October 6, 1942, for the crime of cattle stealing allegedly occurring on or about June 14, 1939. The indictment declared that “knowledge of the commission of the above offense was not brought to the attention of any officer charged with the prosecution of same until April 22, 1942.”

Based on written allegations that the district attorney of the judicial district in which he resided, as well as one of the judges thereof, had knowledge of the alleged offense for more than one year prior to the date of the indictment, defendant specially pleaded the…