Towe v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Petitioner petitions for a writ of prohibition, pursuant to A.R.Cr.P. Rule 28.1(d), challenging the trial court’s ruling on a speedy trial motion.

On January 19, 1989, the petitioner, James Towe, was arrested and charged with two separate counts of delivery and possession of methamphetamine, #CR89-61 and #CR89-62. Towe was tried and convicted on the first charge, #CR89-61, on March 21, 1990, and sentenced to forty years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The second charge, #CR89-62, was set for trial for May 16, 1990. On the basis of our speedy trial rules…