Keever v. Bainter

MOORE, Chief Justice.

Petitioner, Margaret Ann Keever, seeks by certiorari to establish the respondent judge acted illegally in denying her motion to dismiss a murder charge on the ground she had been denied her right to a speedy trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Article I, section 10, of the Iowa Constitution and Iowa Code section 795.2. We quash the writ.

The early pertinent facts are found in the following May 23, 1963 order of District Court Judge E. O. Newell:

“Heretofore and on April 2, 1963, the county attorney of Des Moines County,'…