State v. Anglin

GRIMES, Judge.

The state appeals two orders discharging appellee for failure to bring him to trial within the 180-day period prescribed by the Speedy Trial Rule. The court charged the state with the period of time it took appellee to prosecute an unsuccessful appeal from a pretrial ruling. The court construed State v. Williams, Fla.App.2nd, 1973, 287 So.2d 415, as requiring the state to obtain an extension of the speedy trial time pending the appeal even where the appeal was being taken by the defendant.

In State v. Williams, supra, this court held that in the absence of an order of extension,…