N.M. Stat. § 30-1-9
Tolling of time limitation for prosecution for crimes.
A. If after any crime has been committed the defendant shall conceal himself, or
shall flee from or go out of the state, the prosecution for such crime may be commenced
within the time prescribed in Section 1-8 [30-1-8 NMSA 1978], after the defendant
ceases to conceal himself or returns to the state. No period shall be included in the time
of limitation when the party charged with any crime is not usually and publicly a resident
within the state.
B. When
(1)
an indictment, information or complaint is lost, mislaid or destroyed;
(2)
the judgment is arrested;
(3)
the indictment, information or complaint is quashed, for any defect or
reason; or
(4)
the prosecution is dismissed because of variance between the allegations
of the indictment, information or complaint and the evidence; and a new indictment,
information or complaint is thereafter presented, the time elapsing between the
preferring of the first indictment, information or complaint and the subsequent
indictment, information or complaint shall not be included in computing the period
limited for the prosecution of the crime last charged; provided that the crime last
charged is based upon and grows out of the same transaction upon which the original
indictment, information or complaint was founded, and the subsequent indictment,
information or complaint is brought within five years from the date of the alleged
commission of the original crime.