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PITTS v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

No. 11616.

395 F.2d 182 (1968)

Robert James PITTS, Appellant, v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin R. Manning, Richmond, Va. (Court-assigned counsel) [McCaul & Pearsall, Richmond, Va., on brief], for appellant.

Ralph A. White, Jr., Staff Atty., Raleigh, N. C., Office of the Atty. Gen., of North Carolina (T. W. Bruton, Atty. Gen., of North Carolina, on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF and BRYAN, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

Almost sixteen years after initiating prosecution, the State of North Carolina, at all times knowing the whereabouts of the appellant Robert James Pitts, sought and obtained his conviction for armed robbery. From the District Court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Pitts appeals, alleging that the extreme delay deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial.1 We uphold appellant...

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