Merritt v. State

Lyle Brown, Justice.

Appellant Joe Hoyt Merritt, an inmate at the Arkansas Penitentiary, moved to dismiss two charges of felonious escape pending in the Pulaski County Circuit Court. Two terms of court intervened since the filing of the charges, and that fact would ordinarily entitle him to have the charges dismissed. His motions were denied and he appeals.

Merritt was committed to our penitentiary in 1960. In 1962 he was brought to Pulaski County for mental observation and he escaped. He was apprehended and returned to the penitentiary. That escape resulted in a charge being filed in the…