Marks v. State

W.H. “Dub” Arnold, Chief Justice.

Nancy D. Marks, a/k/a Ann Gable, seeks a writ of prohibition against the Poinsett County Circuit Court to prevent a trial on a theft-by-receiving charge. The trial court denied Marks’s motion to dismiss the charge on speedy-trial grounds. She contends that this ruling was erroneous because she was not brought to trial within twelve months following the issuance of the warrant for her arrest. There is no merit to Marks’s argument, and we deny her request for a writ of prohibition.

On March 31, 1994, a warrant for Marks’s arrest was issued for the offense of…