Actions on penal statutes to be brought in one year.

516.380. All actions and suits, upon any statute, for anypenalty or forfeiture given in whole or in part to any person whowill prosecute for the same, shall be commenced within one yearafter the commission of the offense, and not after.

(RSMo 1939 § 3786)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3396; 1919 § 3741; 1909 § 4949