Lamb v. State

OPINION

GARRARD, Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal from the denial of his second motion to dismiss, Timothy Lamb (“Lamb”) argues that the State’s prosecution of him is untimely brought.

On December 31, 1996, the State filed a one-page information alleging that on October 21, 1994, Lamb committed the crime of dealing in marijuana with a prior conviction, a class D felony. On July 7,1997, Lamb was arrested for that offense. Approximately one month later, Lamb filed his first motion to dismiss the information. In that motion, he argued that the information was defective because the State failed…