Battle v. Mayor of Marietta

I. The provisions of the Penal. Code, § 30, in reference to when “ indictments may be found and filed,” .have no application to prosecutions in the police courts of municipalities.

2. There is no general law in this State providing when prosecutions in police courts shall be barred by lapse of time. »

3. Unless the charter or ordinances .of a municipal corporation provide that offenses against the municipality must be prosecuted within a given time, no lapse of time after the commission of an act declared by ordinance to be unlawful will bar a prosecution therefor.

4. It is essential to the…