People v. Hammond

Defendant William Lee Hammond was charged with armed robbery, contrary to MCL 750.529; MSA 28.797. Trial commenced in Ingham County Circuit Court before Judge Ray C. Hotchkiss on August 20, 1975. Due to delay resulting from the trial court’s orders regarding admission of defendant’s confession and competency of an alleged accomplice to testify in the interlocutory appeal to this Court from the trial judge’s order, defendant filed a motion to dismiss for lack of a speedy trial which was argued before the trial judge on May 20, 1977, and subsequently granted. The people appeal as of right from…