Lane v. State

Appellants, Lane and Edwards, were charged and arrested for murder on January 10 and 11,1981, respectively. Although the grand jury had met, appellants had not been indicted at the time of the hearing addressed herein. After numerous requests for a commitment hearing and for setting of a pretrial bond, a hearing was held by the superior court on February 10,1981. The district attorney requested, and was granted, a continuance of the commitment hearing on the ground that the evidence, including an autopsy report, upon which the state relies, was still at the state crime lab.1 The court then…