OPINION
THOMPSON, Justice:
The sole issue is whether the appellant has been denied his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. In May 1969 he was charged in Nevada with embezzlement. Fourteen months later, while incarcerated in Colorado, he learned of the pending Nevada charge and immediately wrote the Nevada district attorney requesting a "disposition of this charge." The district attorney did not respond. Three months later he wrote the justice of the...
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