Wheeler v. State

Legge, Acting Justice.

This is an appeal from a circuit court order discharging a writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant, a prisoner in the South Carolina State Penitentiary, based his petition for the writ upon the single ground that by reason of his having been held prisoner in the Greenville County jail for more than eight months between his arrest in the latter part of February, 1964, and his trial early in November of that year, he had been denied the right to speedy trial guaranteed by Section 18 of Article 1 of the Constitution of South Carolina. Upon this petition the Honorable John Grimball,…