State v. Lightheart

Brown, O. J.

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the district court of St. Louis county convicting him of the charge of statutory rape.

By various assignments of error defendant contends: (1) That the trial court erred in denying his motion to dismiss the indictment, and in overruling his special plea of a former acquittal; (2) that the court erred in denying his motion to dismiss the prosecution for the failure of the state to bring the indictment to trial within the time prescribed by G. S. 1913, § 8510; (3) that there was error in the refusal of the court to require the state to elect…