How have the courts dealt with a pleading defect in a criminal case?

Defendant argues the state's power to proceed was lacking as a result of the failure of the information to plead facts satisfying the statute of limitations. Assuming this was true at the time the information was filed, defendant waived any argument based on the pleading defect by failing to raise it prior to or during trial. (People v. Lynch (2010) 182 Cal.App.4th 1262, 1276-1277.) Any such error was rendered moot, as discussed above, by the proof at trial of a timely prosecution.