Irby v. State

ZEHMER, Judge.

Appellant, Robert Irby, an inmate at Union Correctional Institution, appeals his conviction of battery of a law enforcement officer1 and contends that his motion for discharge for the state’s failure to comply with the speedy trial rule2 was improperly denied. We affirm.

The essential facts of the battery are succinctly stated in appellant’s brief:

About 12:50 p.m. on August 30, 1982, Officer Ball was on duty at Union Correctional Institution. Another guard was distributing writing paper to inmates in their cells. Irby wanted more paper than the guard was willing to give him, and…