Hawthorne v. State

HARRIS, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was indicted by the Grand Jury of Mobile County in October, 1976, for the sale of heroin. Appellant then filed a motion to quash this indictment on the ground that blacks had been systematically excluded from the jury rolls. This motion was heard and denied by the trial court in January, 1977. Following a favorable ruling in Federal Court on Habeas Corpus, the trial court quashed the October, 1976 indictment on May 6, 1977.

On July 1, 1977, appellant filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that he had been denied a speedy trial. According to the…