Hunt v. State

question here is whether the facts stated in the affidavit which sought to charge the offense, constituted a public offense; the alleged infirmity being, that the time of the offense was laid in two different years, one of which was without the statute of limitations.

So much of the affidavit (omitting the caption) as will present the alleged error is: “Ralph Plummer' being duly sworn upon his oath says that Clarence Hunt on or about the 27th day of Oct, A. D., nineteen hundred 1923, at said county, ... . did then and there," etc. Appellant moved to quash the affidavit for the cause that the…