Adams v. State

Hall, Presiding Judge.

Faye Allyson Adams appeals her conviction and one-year prison sentence for burglary entered May 17, 1973 on the ground that the state failed to comply with her demand for trial under Code § 27-1901. There is no dispute that the actual trial did not take place until the second regular term following that in which the demand was made. The state urges that special circumstances here resulted in the satisfaction of the statute or alternatively in Adams’ waiver of her demand. We cannot concur with the state’s position, and we reverse.

At the August 1972 adjourned term of the…