State v. Johnson

Defendant’s first assignment of error is that the trial judge erred in overruling his motion to dismiss this prosecution because he had been denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial. The facts upon which defendant bases this motion are not in dispute:

On 1 November 1963, the seventh day after the robbery, Sheriff Womble obtained warrants charging Johnson and McCoy with the crime. At that time Johnson and McCoy were in jail in Wilson County, charged with having committed during the week of the Nash County robbery four other armed robberies, one in Edgecombe County and three in Wilson…