The People v. Utterback

In December, 1940, the circuit court of Pike county committed plaintiff in error to the' penitentiary for the indeterminate term fixed by statute for the crime of assault with intent to murder. He has sued a writ of error out of this court to review that part of the record which pertains to a motion he filed asking to be discharged for failure to give him a speedy trial within the requirements of section 18 of division XIII of the Criminal Code. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, chap. 38, par. 748.

On a preliminary hearing before a justice of the peace, plaintiff in erpor was held to await the action of…