Re: Statue of Limitation on Drug Charge

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On 12/29/08, reneecyrus wrote:
> On 6/09/08, K wrote:
>> Is there a statue of limitations on state felony drug
> in mississippi

Here is the statute of limitations for Mississippi. Looks
like two years is the limitation for drug offenses but read
the statute carefully. Also if you fled the jurisdiction or
went into hiding, the limitation doesn't count while you were
out of the state or in hiding.
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West's Annotated Mississippi Code
Title 99. Criminal Procedure
Chapter 1. General Provisions; Time Limitations;
Miss. Code Ann. § 99-1-5: Limitations; exceptions

The passage of time shall never bar prosecution against any
person for the offenses of murder, manslaughter, aggravated
assault, kidnapping, arson, burglary, forgery, counterfeiting,
robbery, larceny, rape, embezzlement, obtaining money or
property under false pretenses or by fraud, felonious abuse or
battery of a child as described in Section 97-5-39, touching
or handling a child for lustful purposes as described in
Section 97-5-23, sexual battery of a child as described in
Section 97-3-95(1)(c), (d) or (2), or exploitation of children
as described in Section 97-5-33. A person shall not be
prosecuted for conspiracy, as described in Section 97-1-1, or
for felonious assistance program fraud, as described in
Section 97-19-71, unless the prosecution for such offense be
commenced within five (5) years next after the commission
thereof. A person shall not be prosecuted for any other
offense not listed in this section unless the prosecution for
such offense be commenced within two (2) years next after the
commission thereof. Nothing contained in this section shall
bar any prosecution against any person who shall abscond or
flee from justice, or shall absent himself from this state or
out of the jurisdiction of the court, or so conduct himself
that he cannot be found by the officers of the law, or that
process cannot be served upon him.