Weeks v. State

Upon a review of the record and briefs filed in this cause we initially decided to affirm on the authority of Tillman v. State, Fla.App.2nd, 1973, 287 So.2d 639, cert. dismissed, Fla., 285 So.2d 417, 617, the cases cited therein, and Bankston v. State, Fla.App.2nd, 1973, 279 So.2d 326. However, in light of the dissenting opinion filed by Chief Judge Mann, we feel constrained to add the following:

In 1970, appellant was imprisoned in a correctional institution in the State of Florida, serving a sentence for the commission of another crime. Upon the promulgation of the Speedy Trial Rule in 1971,…