Barkley v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

In these companion cases Barkley appeals from the judgments of February 20, 1986, relative to his conviction on two separate indictments of violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Appellant was indicted June 4, 1985, and tried in February 1986. The three regular terms of the Superior Court of Spalding County are held in February, June, and October of each year. Barkley asserts that OCGA § 17-7-170 mandates that he should have been discharged and acquitted of the offenses charged because he filed demands for speedy trial on the last day of the July 1985…