COOPER v. LANGSTON

No. CR 88-51.

756 S.W.2d 896 (1988)

296 Ark. 306

Benny COOPER, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Don LANGSTON, Circuit Judge, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

September 19, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Marschewski, R. Paul Hughes III, Ft. Smith, for petitioner.

C. Kent Joliff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for respondent.


DUDLEY, Justice.

This petition for a writ of prohibition asserts that petitioner has been denied a speedy trial on three felony counts of an information filed in the Sebastian County Circuit Court. We find no denial of petitioner's right to a speedy trial.

On February 22, 1987, petitioner was arrested and charged in the first information with three felony counts. He was released on bond a little over a week later, on March 3. About a month later, on April...

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