Ex Parte Martin

6 S.W.3d 524 (1999)

Ex parte Edie Dione MARTIN, Appellant.

No. 00073-98.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

November 24, 1999.

Cliff McCormack, San Marcos, for appellant.

Michael S. Wenk, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lockhart, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.

Before the court en banc.

Code of Criminal Procedure Article 32.01 requires the State to indict a defendant by the next term of the grand jury after the one in which the defendant was arrested or show good cause for the failure to do so. The State argues that delay in receiving offense reports from the police department…