State v. Strand

HOWE, Justice:

We granted defendant’s petition to bring this interlocutory appeal from the denial of his motion to dismiss a criminal information on the ground that the applicable four year statute of limitations had run on the offense charged.

On August 24, 1981, an information (the August information) was filed against defendant charging him with making false material statements under oath on January 18, 1978 in violation of U.C.A., 1953, § 76-8-502(1). Preliminary hearing was scheduled for December 15, 1981. Trial was set for January 13, 1982, five days before the statute of limitations…