PRINCE v. STATE OF ALABAMA

No. 73-3108.

507 F.2d 693 (1975)

Thomas R. PRINCE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF ALABAMA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 13, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Bryan, Birmingham, Ala. (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty.Gen., Don C. Dickert, Joseph G. L. Marston, III, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for respondent-appellee.

Before GODBOLD, SIMPSON and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 13, 1975.

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

We review a denial of a habeas corpus petition which alleged that the appellant, Thomas R. Prince, was not afforded his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a speedy trial by virtue of a nine year delay between his indictment in Alabama on two counts of robbery and subsequent trial on those charges. The district court denied the petition on grounds articulated by the Alabama...

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