Callaway v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

The instant case is before us again on remand from the Supreme Court of Georgia. By way of review, this Court, in Callaway v. State, 2 relied upon United States Supreme Court precedent, United States v. MacDonald, 3 and distinguished between the statutory right to a speedy trial under OCGA § 17-7-170 and the constitutional right to a speedy trial as illustrated in the seminal case of Barker v. Wingo . 4 In so doing, we held in Callaway — as the United States Supreme Court held in United States v. MacDonald, supra — that a direct appeal will not lie from the denial of a motion…