State v. Sullivan

The grand jury in and for the parish of St. Helena, on March 6, 1925, returned a bill of indictment against defendant, charging him with having committed incest, in January, 1924, with his daughter, Mary Sullivan, a child 14 years of age. It is alleged in the hill that the offense was not made known to a public officer until December 1, 1924.

Defendant filed two motions to quash this indictment. The first one is based on the ground that, as more than a year elapsed between the alleged commission of the offense and. the finding of the indictment, the offense is prescribed. The court tried this…