Ruip v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Richard Charles Ruip, who is serving a sentence in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, filed with the Jefferson Circuit Court in Kentucky a motion that a pending indictment against him be dismissed because the state had failed to afford him a speedy trial. The motion was overruled and Ruip has appealed.

Ruip has been in the Federal Penitentiary for a number of years. In 1963 he filed with the Jefferson Circuit Court a motion that he be given a speedy trial on the state indictment above mentioned. The motion was denied and on application to this Court for an order…