State v. Harrison

648 So.2d 66 (1994)

STATE of Mississippi

v.

Henry Lee HARRISON.

No. 90-KA-0984.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 21, 1994.

Charles G. Burdick, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pascagoula, for appellant.

Ross Parker Simons, Pascagoula, for appellee.

En Banc.

BANKS, Justice, for the court:

Harrison, a capital murder indictee, was discharged by the Jackson County Circuit Court following his motion for dismissal with prejudice on the basis that the State failed to provide Harrison a timely trial in compliance with Miss. Code Ann. § 99-17-1 (Supp. 1994). We choose this occasion to revisit the question of the…