Cates v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged with homicide by vehicle in the second degree and following another vehicle too closely. He now appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion for discharge and acquittal based on the State’s alleged failure to comply with his speedy trial demand under OCGA § 17-7-170.

The trial court entered an order finding that defendant filed his statutory demand for trial on November 15, 1994, during a court term in which juries were impaneled and qualified to try him; that defendant was not tried within this court term; that the next succeeding regular…