PEOPLE EX REL. COCA v. DISTRICT COURT OF SEVENTH J. D.

No. 26606.

530 P.2d 958 (1975)

PEOPLE ex rel. Alfred David COCA, Petitioners, v. DISTRICT COURT OF the SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT and the Honorable Fred C. Calhoun, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

January 13, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Klingsmith, Russell, Angelo & Wright, P.C., Wyatt B. Angelo, Robert E. Wright, Jr., Gunnison, for petitioners.

William J. Knous, Dist. Atty., F. Lynn French, Deputy Dist. Atty., Crested Butte, for respondents.


ERICKSON, Justice.

This original proceeding was brought to obtain a writ of prohibition to compel the trial judge to dismiss a theft charge on the ground that the petitioner was denied a speedy trial. We issued a rule to show cause and now discharge the rule with directions to the trial court.

When the petitioner's motion to dismiss was heard, the trial judge concluded that the motion should be granted under the law relating to a speedy trial, but then held...

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