When an indictment is lost, mislaid or destroyed, when a judgment is arrested or an indictment quashed for any defect therein, for the reason that it was not found by a grand jury regularly organized, because it charged no offense or for any other cause or when the prosecution is dismissed because of a variance between the allegations of the indictment and the evidence and a new indictment is ordered to be preferred, the time elapsing between the preferring of the first charge or indictment and the subsequent indictment must be deducted from the time limited for the prosecution of the offense last charged.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 15 - Criminal Procedure.
Chapter 3 - Limitations on Prosecution.
Section 15-3-1 - Felonies Generally.
Section 15-3-2 - Misdemeanors.
Section 15-3-3 - Conversion of Public Revenues.
Section 15-3-4 - Unlawful Taking or Using Temporarily of Property.
Section 15-3-5 - Offenses Having No Limitation.
Section 15-3-7 - When Prosecution Deemed Commenced.
Section 15-3-8 - Crimes Punishable Under Different Provisions.