State v. Mills

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Holmes, J.:

This is an appeal from a Pottawatomie District Court judgment dismissing a special prosecutor’s information that charged David L. Mills with enticement of a child in violation of K.S.A. 21-3509. The district court, in a pretrial ruling upon a motion filed by Mills, dismissed the charge, finding that the action was barred by the statute of limitations, K.S.A. 21-3106.

The facts in the case are not disputed. In July of 1979, the defendant, David L. Mills, stopped at the home of his friend, Jerry Lynn Medley. The victim, a 10-year-old boy, was…