Garrison v. People

Plaintiff in error was convicted of larceny upon the second count of an indictment; the other counts were quashed by the court before trial. A motion to quash the second count was made before plea, and overruled, and this is assigned as error. That count charges the larceny to have been committed on January 21, 1866. The indictment was found at September term, 1876. The statute of limitations in force in 1866, provided that no person should be prosecuted or tried for larceny, “ unless the indictment for the same shall be found by a grand jury within three years next after the offense shall…