State v. Bridges

KRUCKER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in March, 1972, by a Pima County Grand Jury on one count of grand theft and five counts of drawing a check on .insufficient funds. In April of the same year he was incarcerated in the Dade County, Florida jail and informed of the outstanding warrants for his arrest. While in Florida, appellant sent a motion for a speedy trial to the Superior Court of P.ima County, which was denied because it was “untimely.”

Appellant then filed a mandamus action in this court requesting that the county attorney be compelled to grant him a speedy trial, discharge the action…