Elmer J. Benes v. United States

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• construing the criminal statute of limitations as a jurisdictional bar to prosecution, and holding that the statute was not tolled by an agreement between the parties that the government would not seek an indictment during the pendency of a related civil case
• construing the criminal statute of limitations as a jurisdictional bar to prosecution, and holding that the statute was not tolled by an agreement between the parties that the government would not seek an indictment during the pendency of a related civil case
• “And the general rule is further that an indictment . barred by the statute of limitations ... is not waived by the fact that the prosecution was withheld on account of an agreement with the accused . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).