State v. Boyd

BALEY, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the denial of her motions for dismissal for failure to grant her a speedy trial, for change of venue, and for a continuance. None of these assignments of error have any merit.

The defendant was arrested 18 June 1972, indicted at October Term, 1972, and tried 10 June 1973. The case was not reached at one term because of the heavy docket and deferred at another term because of the unavailability of an essential witness who was taking a three months course at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D. C. The defendant was not in custody, and…