State v. Gladden

SUMMERS, Justice.

By a bill of information filed on March 13, 1968 appellant was charged with the sale of a narcotic drug on November 3, 1967. La.R.S. 40:962. He was convicted and sentenced to serve twenty years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. On this appeal he relies upon seven bills of exceptions for reversal of his conviction and sentence.

Bill No. 1

On January 28, 1970, prior to trial on February 26, 1970, appellant filed a motion to quash, alleging that he had been denied a speedy trial contrary to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and in…