Dennis v. State
Decision Date | 18 November 1980 |
Docket Number | No. 3-680A158,3-680A158 |
Citation | 412 N.E.2d 303 |
Parties | Douglas H. DENNIS, Defendant-Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Plaintiff-Appellee. |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
Dempsey A. Cox, Cox & Albright Professional Corp., South Bend, for defendant-appellant.
Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen. of Indiana, Frank A. Baldwin, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for plaintiff-appellee.
Appellant Dennis was charged with child molesting, a Class C felony. On November 13, 1979, the court conducted an omnibus hearing and the case was scheduled for trial as a "second setting" on January 28, 1980.
It appears that the victim, who was to be the state's principal witness, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, during the interim since the alleged commission of the offense. When, on Wednesday, January 23, 1980, it still appeared that the case scheduled as the primary setting for the 28th would go to trial, the prosecutor's office contacted the victim and instructed her that she need not appear for trial on Monday unless the prosecutor contacted her again by the evening of the 24th. No such notification was given.
Then on the afternoon of Friday, January 25, the state was first advised of a tentative plea agreement in the case which had the primary setting for January 28th and that the Dennis case would be called for trial.
On Monday the 28th the state appeared and moved for a continuance. Noting that the motion did not comply with the requirements of IC 35-1-26-2 1 and that the prosecutor had taken it upon himself to advise the witness not to attend, the court denied the motion.
Accordingly, the next day the state filed the instant prosecution, 3 Dennis moved to dismiss, his motion was denied and we allowed this interlocutory appeal.
It should be pointed out that at the time this prosecution was commenced the statute of limitations was no bar to the action. Nor has Dennis asserted a denial of constitutional speedy trial rights premised upon the state's actions. See, e. g., Terry v. State (1980), Ind.App., 400 N.E.2d 1158.
Thus, the question presented for review is limited to whether the dismissal granted on January 28, 1980 was necessarily "with prejudice." We conclude that it was not and that Dennis' appeal must fail.
The general rule in criminal prosecutions is that a dismissal of the charge will not bar a renewal of proceedings unless the substantial rights of the accused have been prejudiced, as where speedy trial is found to have been denied or jeopardy has attached in the first prosecution.
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