State v. Sharpe

ARNOLD, Judge.

I

The defendant first assigns as error the denial of his motion for dismissal for failure to provide a speedy trial. Defendant was picked up in New York on 4 February 1977, and returned to North Carolina for trial on 28 September 1977. As defendant testified on cross-examination, “I have been in jail since February 4th. That was not because of this case.” Defendant made no written request for final disposition of the indictment, as required by the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, N.C.G.S. § 15A-761, Art. 111(a). There is no showing in the record that had there been a hearing on…