State v. Bryson

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

RICHARDSON, C.J.

The four narcotics cases before this court were consolidated for purposes of argument on appeal. All of the prosecutions were the result of alleged sales of narcotics to an undercover police officer. Each defendant was indicted by a grand jury from six to nine months after the date of the alleged sale.

The defense counsel below moved to dismiss the indictments on the ground that there had been an unreasonable and prejudicial lapse of time between the date of the commission of the alleged offense and the date of the defendants’ indictments. In two of the…