STATE v. O'KELLY

No. 71.

204 S.E.2d 672 (1974)

285 N.C. 368

STATE of North Carolina v. James Franklin O'KELLY, III.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen. by R. Bruce White, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., and Guy A. Hamlin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

L. Stanley Brown, Charlotte, for defendant-appellant.


HIGGINS, Justice.

By the present appeal, the defendant challenges the refusal of the court to grant his motion to dismiss the charges on the ground his constitutional rights to a speedy trial had been denied. At the hearing on the motion to dismiss, the record shows conclusively that the defendant was in no way responsible for the delay, but was insisting on a speedy trial for fear delay would rob him of witnesses material to his defense.

The State did not...

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