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Section 22Sec./Art. 22
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Prescription of Offenses. - The crimes punishable by life imprisonment under this Act shall prescribe in twenty-five (25) years. Other crimes under this Act with lower number of years of imprisonment shall prescribe in accordance with Act No. 3326.
Prescription shall begin to run from the day the violation of the law was committed, and if the same be not known at the time, from the discovery thereof by the offended party, the law enforcement authorities or their agents. The period shall be interrupted by the filing of an information or the institution proceedings against the offender. It shall again run when such proceedings are terminated without the accused being convicted or acquitted, or when such proceedings are unjustifiably stopped through no fault of the accused.
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