Williams v. State

PATTERSON, Judge.

Curtis Williams appeals from the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that he has been deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. He alleges in his petition that while serving a six-year sentence in the Mobile County jail, he failed to return to the jail from a work detail on June 17, 1978; that he was arrested in December 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia, apparently served a prison sentence in that state, and was released; that he was arrested in Mobile County in November 1980 and extradited to the State of Florida, where he was sentenced to twelve…