State v. Carroll

CARROLL, Judge.

This appeal is by the state from an order of the criminal court of record of Dade County which discharged the appellee-de-fendant Earl Jackson Carroll, herein referred to as the defendant, from the crimes of which he had been charged by information, for want of a speedy trial. In the circumstances disclosed in the record, the challenged order of the trial court was incorrect, and we reverse.

Section 915.01(2), Fla.Stat., F.S.A. provides that when a person who has been arrested and released on bond files written demands for trial in three successive terms of the court having…