Pope v. State

Hunt, Chief Justice.

The defendants filed a speedy trial demand. After an unrelated appeal, the clerk’s office filed the remittitur from the Court of Appeals near the end of a court term when no juries were impaneled and qualified to serve. When the state failed to try the defendants during that court term or the next term, they moved for an acquittal, which the trial court denied. The Court of Appeals affirmed. We granted the writ of certiorari to consider whether a term of court counts under a speedy trial demand when no jury is available after the filing of the remittitur. We conclude that…