Wallis v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

On September 28,1979, appellant was convicted by a jury of two counts of theft by shoplifting. She appeals, enumerating several errors. Held:

Following indictment by accusation on December 8, 1978, Wallis on December 13,1978, filed with the Clerk of Gwinnett State Court a formal demand for jury trial. This document form, called a “pink slip” (demand for jury trial), was not presented to the judge and was not spread upon the minutes of the court.'

More than two terms of court, with jurors impaneled and qualified to serve, passed before the appellant was tried. At trial, however,…