TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 4

TIME OF COMMENCING CRIMINAL ACTIONS

19-404.  Absence of defendant from state. If, when the offense is committed, the defendant is out of the state, the indictment may be found within the term herein limited after his coming within the state, and no time during which the defendant is not an inhabitant of, or usually resident within, the state is part of the limitation.

History:

[19-404, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 5, p. 986.]