STATE EX REL. MULLEN v. SWIGERT

No. GG-431.

352 So.2d 962 (1977)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Mary Louise MULLEN a/k/a Mary Louise Mullins, Relator, v. Honorable William T. SWIGERT, Judge of the Circuit Court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in and for Marion County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 15, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Fuller of Savage, Krim, Simons & Fuller, Ocala, for relator.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Richard W. Prospect, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


ERVIN, Judge.

This court reviewed the early facts of this prosecution in State ex rel. Mullins v. Swigert, 345 So.2d 386 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). After arresting the relator, the state waited for 173 days to file an information and set a trial date on the 179th day. We then concluded that although the trial court's order granting a continuance of 90 days was erroneous, the court had jurisdiction because the extension order was...

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