Newman, John Landon

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF TEXAS

NO. PD-0040-10

JOHN LANDON NEWMAN, Appellant

v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

ON STATE'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

FROM THE FOURTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS

HARRIS COUNTY

Hervey, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which Keller, P.J., Meyers, Womack, Johnson, Keasler and Cochran, JJ., joined. Price, J., dissented.

O P I N I O N

Based on federal constitutional speedy-trial grounds, appellant filed an unsworn motion to dismiss his intoxication-assault case. Appellant claimed in this unsworn motion that his Sixth Amendment federal constitutional right to a speedy…