STATE v. COTTON

No. 2001 KA 1781.

818 So.2d 968 (2002)

STATE of Louisiana v. Sidney COTTON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

May 10, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis Murray, Assistant District Attorney, Franklinton, Dorothy Pendergast, Metairie, Counsel for Appellee State of Louisiana.

Kyla Blanchard-Romanach, Louisiana Appellate Project, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Appellant Sidney Cotton.

Before: GONZALES, KUHN, and CIACCIO, JJ.


KUHN, J.

Defendant, Sidney Cotton, appeals a district court judgment denying his motion to quash the bill of information based on untimely institution of prosecution. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

A chronology of the relevant proceedings set forth in the record of this case is as follows. Defendant was charged by bill of information on December 1, 1995, with molestation of a juvenile, a violation of La. R.S. 14:81.2, and oral sexual...

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