By AP/KWMU
Jefferson City, Mo. – Missouri's highest court has affirmed a lower court's stance that no time limit applies to prosecuting someone for sodomy.
The ruling came when the state Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Roman Catholic priest accused of child sex abuse during the 1970s.
The court's ruling upholds a September ruling by the Missouri Court of Appeals. That court reversed a St. Louis judge's determination that too much time had passed for Father Thomas Graham to be charged with the abuse.
The 70-year-old priest was indicted two years ago on a charge of performing oral sex on a teenage boy in the 1970s in the rectory of the historic Old Cathedral in downtown St. Louis.
Graham's attorneys say no other appeals of the statute-of-limitations matter are planned.