State v. Wingard

Defendant was, by the verdict of tbe jury, found guilty of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor as charged by an information filed in the superior court for Pierce county. Prom judgment and sentence entered against him upon the verdict, the defendant has appealed.

It is first contended that the statute (Rem. Comp. Stat., § 2312) prescribes a sixty-day period within which an accused person shall be brought to trial after the information is filed; therefore the court should have granted appellant’s motion for dismissal of the prosecution on the ground of failure to bring the cause to trial…