Bowman v. State

315 Ga. 707

FINAL COPY S22G0303. BOWMAN v. THE STATE. BOGGS, Chief Justice. In February 2014, a Paulding County grand jury indicted Logan Adam Bowman for crimes against his daughter. At the next term of court, Bowman properly invoked his right to a speedy trial pursuant to the applicable speedy trial statute, OCGA § 17-7-170. More than five years later, the State still had not brought him to trial before 12 citizens sworn by the court or the court clerk to “well and truly try the issue formed upon this bill of indictment . . . and a true verdict give according to the evidence,” OCGA §…