UNITED STATES v. FROST

No. 7558.

431 F.2d 1249 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Roy A. FROST, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 6, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Fleet Cowden, Boston, Mass., by appointment of the Court, for appellant.

Willie J. Davis, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Herbert F. Travers, Jr., U. S. Atty., was on brief, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of his narcotics conviction because of an asserted denial of his constitutional and procedural rights to a speedy trial, the time elapsing between arrest and trial being 31 months. Appellant's offenses were committed in June of 1967. The indictment was returned over thirteen months later, in August, 1968. Trial was had eighteen months later, in February, 1970. During the earlier period, preceding indictment, arraignment...

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