Smeltzer v. State

Petitioner, David Taylor Smeltzer, has filed in this Court a petition for a writ of mandate or in the alternative, a petition asking that this court assume jurisdiction of a demand for a fair and speedy trial. Said petition was filed pro se by petitioner who is currently an inmate at the Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah.

The events preceding the filing of this petition are as follows: On or about October 19, 1968, petitioner Smeltzer was arrested in Delaware County, Indiana, and charged in two counts with (1) physical injury inflicted by a deadly *167weapon while engaged in a robbery and (2) armed…