Court Opinion

ID: 9566512
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:40:16.032349+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:38:10.122716
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*9Gregory, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent to Division II (a) of the majority opinion.
As to Division II (a), the majority opinion holds the State’s allegation that the offense was unknown until October 20, 1980 is insufficient to toll the running of the statute of limitations. My view is that the tolling statute includes that period of time when the offense is unknown. The statute provides for tolling of the period of time in which “the person committing the crime or crimes is unknown ...” Code Ann. § 26-503 (b).
If the crime is unknown the person committing the crime must necessarily be unknown. It is not the knowledge of a person as an individual but the knowledge of a person as the offender which relates in a rational way to the tolling of the statute.
I am authorized to state that Presiding Justice Hill joins in this dissent as to Division II (a).