People v. Brown

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SMITH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Sub-paragraph (e) of our “Speedy Trial” provision — par. 103 — 5, ch. 38, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969 — provides in part:

“If a person is simultaneously in custody upon more than one charge pending against him in the same county * * * he shall be tried * * * upon at least one such charge before expiration relative to any of such pending charges of the period prescribed by sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section. Such person shall be tried upon all of the remaining charges thus pending within 160 days from the date on which judgment…