Chelf v. State

The prosecution of an indictment for murder in the first degree resulting in this appeal was begun in the Criminal Court of Marion County and completed in the Boone Circuit Court where appellants November 23, 1943, filed a joint and several motion for discharge because of delay in bringing them to trial. Reliance is placed upon the constitutional mandate that “Justice shall be administered . . . speedily and without delay,” Art. 1 § 12, Indiana Bill of Rights, and also upon § 9-1402, Burns’ 1933, § 2238, Baldwin’s 1934. The rights of a defendant under this statute are not coextensive with his…