Cooper v. Langston

Robert H. 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 8, he was arrested and charged in a second information containing four separate and additional felony counts. He was released on…