State v. Summage

SMITH, Chief Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court’s order granting Kerwin Lamont Summage’s motion for discharge and acquittal on speedy trial grounds. For reasons that follow, we reverse.

Although we review a trial court’s findings as to disputed facts under a clearly erroneous standard, the trial court’s application of the law to undisputed facts is subject to de novo review. See Vansant v. State, 264 Ga. 319, 320 (1) (443 SE2d 474) (1994). Viewed in this manner, the record shows that on April 30, 1998, a Cobb County grand jury indicted Summage on two counts of child molestation.…