State v. Cuezze, Houston & Faltico

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Holmes, J.:

This is a direct appeal by the State pursuant to K.S.A. 1978 Supp. 22-3602(b)(l) from an order of the district court dismissing all three counts in a criminal information in case number 77CR0769 against John Cuezze and Dorothy Houston for failure to grant the defendants a speedy trial, and dismissing the third count of the information against Patrick Faltico, a codefendant, on the ground that venue did not lie in Wyandotte County. Counts I and II of the information are still pending against Faltico.

On February 2, 1977, charges were filed…