State v. Hayes

O’NIELL, C. X

The state has appealed from a judgment sustaining a plea of prescription filed by the defendant, who was accused of assaulting by willfully shooting at one Mumford Philips many years ago. In the bill of information, filed on the 19th of October, 1925, it was alleged that the crime was committed on or about the 15th of August, 1898, but that the fact was not known by any public officer having the power to direct a prosecution until the 12th of June, 1925, and that the defendant absconded and fled from justice immediately after committing the offense, and was a fugitive from…