Billingsley v. State

The only issue appellant presents for review may be condensed to whether he was denied his right to a speedy trial guaranteed by the interfusion of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States1 and safeguarded also by Art. I, Sec. 6, of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.

There is agreement on the part of all concerned that the crime for which appellant was indicted, tried and convicted, a robbery, occurred in Birmingham, Jefferson County, on May 14 or 15, 1975. He was indicted on February 6, 1976, tried July 28-29 of the same year and convicted and sentenced…