State v. Wentworth

Appellant asserts he was entitled to discharge upon his motion made at commencement of trial by reason of the failure of the state to try him within the 90-day period set forth in R. C. 2945.71(B)(2).2 The pivot*173al issue thus presented is whether the trial court’s, order, although entered within the 90-day period prescribed in R. C. 2945.71(B), continuing the case for trial to a date,six months after the pre-trial, and 196 days after arrest, .and doing so by utilizing a form entry giving the reason for continuance as a • crowded docket, without further explication in the. record, was…