Hurt v. State

The defendant was indicted at the March term, 1938, of the superior court of DeKalb County, in two counts, one of which charged burglary of the storehouse of the Wofford Oil Company. This indictment was No. 4599, and the burglary was alleged to have been committed March 7, 1938, the day the grand jury convened. On March 18, 1938, the defendant entered a demand for trial, which was allowed and entered on the minutes of the court on the same day. At the succeeding June term of court the following order was entered on the indictment: “The defendant having placed a demand for trial, and the State…