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We granted certiorari in this case to consider two issues: 1 whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that OCGA § 17-3-3 did not give the State six additional months to obtain a second indictment against appellee David Outen after the remittitur was filed following the State’s unsuccessful attempt to appeal the dismissal of the felony vehicular homicide “FVH” count of Outen’s first indictment; and 2 whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the FVH count of the second indictment did not relate back to the date of the first indictment. As explained below, the Court of Appeals reached the correct conclusion on both issues, although we disagree with its analysis of the relation-back issue. Accordingly, we affirm the Court of Appeals’ judgment upholding the dismissal of the felony vehicular homicide count of the second indictment. See Bunn v. State, 291 Ga. 183, 193 728 SE2d 569 2012 affirming the Court of Appeals’ judgment on certiorari under the right-for-any-reason doctrine.

1. The record indicates that on March 21, 2007, Outen was driving along West Broad Street in Athens, Georgia, when his vehicle abruptly and sharply veered off the road into a restaurant parking lot where Trina Heard had stopped on her way to work. Outen’s vehicle slammed into Heard’s car, killing her. On March 18, 2009, a Clarke County grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Outen with felony vehicular homicide based on reckless driving, see OCGA § 40-6-390 a, 40-6-393 a, and misdemeanor vehicular homicide based on failure to maintain lane, see OCGA § 40-6-48, 40-6-393 c. The indictment was timely under the statute of limitations, which gives the State four years to bring a charge of felony vehicular homicide and two years to charge misdemeanor vehicular homicide.1

 
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