HODGES, Justice.
In the trial court, petitioner Jackson moved for a dismissal of a rape charge filed against him. The ground for the motion was that a statutory provision, as interpreted by him, states that no prosecution may be instituted or maintained when the victim of the rape fails to notify the district attorney or other law enforcement official within three months after she reaches her 16th birthday. Petitioner claims the victim in this case failed to give...
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