State v. Rowe

Bell, Chief Judge.

During the June term of Chatham Superior Court two indictments were returned against defendant. The first charged a count of kidnapping and the other charged one count of armed robbery and one count of robbery by intimidation. Defendant made a demand for trial during the same term. He was not tried during the June term nor during the following September term. The two robbery counts were based on the same factual situation. As two terms of court had passed without trial, the trial court discharged and acquitted the defendant of kidnapping and robbery by intimidation, and…