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§ 30-1-9 NMSA 1978

Tolling of time limitation for prosecution for crimes

Known as the Criminal Code

The act spans §§ 30–30 (18 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case William Ray Cawley v. Donald A. Dorsey, Warden New Mexico Attorney General (1997)

Most recently applied in William Ray Cawley v. Donald A. Dorsey, Warden New Mexico Attorney General (February 1997)

1953 Comp., § 40A-1-9, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 1-9.

A. If after any crime has been committed the defendant shall conceal himself, or shall flee from or go out of the state, the prosecution for such crime may be commenced within the time prescribed in Section 1-8 [ 30-1-8 NMSA 1978], after the defendant ceases to conceal himself or returns to the state. No period shall be included in the time of limitation when the party charged with any crime is not usually and publicly a resident within the state.

B. When

(1) an indictment, information or complaint is lost, mislaid or destroyed;

(2) the judgment is arrested;

(3) the indictment, information or complaint is quashed, for any defect or reason; or

(4) the prosecution is dismissed because of variance between the allegations of the indictment, information or complaint and the evidence; and a new indictment, information or complaint is thereafter presented, the time elapsing between the preferring of the first indictment, information or complaint and the subsequent indictment, information or complaint shall not be included in computing the period limited for the prosecution of the crime last charged; provided that the crime last charged is based upon and grows out of the same transaction upon which the original indictment, information or complaint was founded, and the subsequent indictment, information or complaint is brought within five years from the date of the alleged commission of the original crime.

Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.