State v. Killian

OPINION

HOWARD, Judge.

This case involves a knifing at the Arizona State Prison. Appellant was found guilty by a jury of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon in violation of A.R.S. § 13-249 and was sentenced to a term of not less than 10 nor more than 15 years in the Arizona State Prison to run consecutively to the sentence which he was currently serving.

Appellant contends the court erred (1) in refusing to dismiss the case for failure to bring appellant to trial within the time limits of Rule 8, Arizona Rules of Criminal Procedure; (2) in refusing to dismiss the case for lack of speedy…