State v. Downing

Defendant was convicted by a jury of knowingly uttering and publishing a forged bank check and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. He now appeals this conviction, setting out two assignments of error: (1) that he was denied his right to a speedy trial, and (2) that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a mistrial.

We first examine the speedy trial issue. On February 28, 1968, an information of felony charging defendant with the crime for which he was ultimately convicted was filed in Justice Court for the District of Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon. On or about March 21,…