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STATE v. HUGHES

No. 8121SC314.

282 S.E.2d 504 (1981)

STATE of North Carolina v. Curtis McDonald HUGHES.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 6, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Roy A. Giles, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

David B. Hough, Winston Salem, for defendant-appellant.

VAUGHN, Judge.

Defendant first assigns as error the State's failure to grant him a speedy trial. We begin by noting that North Carolina's Speedy Trial Act does not apply since the offense occurred before the statute's effective date. G.S. 15A-701 to -704. Defendant's claim, therefore, rests on his right to a speedy trial, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, made applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. Klopfer v. North Carolina,

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