STATE EX REL. WRIGHT v. YAWN

No. Y-546.

320 So.2d 880 (1975)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Robert Clark, WRIGHT, Relator, v. Theron A. YAWN, Jr., As Judge of the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court, in and for Alachua County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

September 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mack S. Futch, Public Defender, and Gary R. Dunham, Asst. Public Defender, for relator.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Donald K. Rudser, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


RAWLS, Acting Chief Judge.

Relator, Robert Clark Wright, has filed in this Court a Suggestion for Writ of Prohibition in which he contends that he cannot be tried for sexual battery as his right to speedy trial has been violated. We issued the Rule, the Return was filed, and oral argument was heard.

On November 24, 1974, Wright was arrested on a charge of sexual battery. A preliminary hearing was held on November 27, 1974, in which County Judge Margaret Kathleen...

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