EX PARTE SLAUGHTER

78-556.

377 So.2d 632 (1979)

Ex parte Charles Ray SLAUGHTER. (Re: Charles Ray Slaughter v. State of Alabama).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 9, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Floyd, Phenix City, for petitioner.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen. and Sarah Kathryn Farnell, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


BLOODWORTH, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals which affirmed petitioner's conviction for robbery and sentence to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. We reverse and remand because petitioner was denied his constitutional right to speedy trial.

The trial court denied petitioner's motion to quash the indictment on grounds of deprivation of his right to speedy trial and the Court of Criminal Appeals...

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