Serrano v. Duckworth

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SHARP, District Judge.

In the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, petitioner challenges his trial and conviction for first degree murder and murder in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate rape. On direct appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court his conviction was unanimously affirmed in Serrano v. State, 266 Ind. 126, 360 N.E.2d 1257 (1977). Petitioner alleges first, that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for discharge under Indiana Criminal Rule 4(B) dealing with speedy trial; second, that the trial court erred in excluding from evidence results of…