Case Title: Ford v. Presiding Judge, Twentieth Judicial Circuit

Citation: 167 So. 2d 166

Docket Number: 

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1964-08-27T00:00:00Z

Document:
167 So. 2d 166 (1964)
Marvin FORD
v.
PRESIDING JUDGE, TWENTIETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
4 Div. 205.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
August 27, 1964.
Marvin Ford, pro se.
Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., and Owen Bridges, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
MERRILL, Justice.
Petitioner seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus from this court ordering the Circuit Court of Houston County to either bring the petitioner to trial or to cancel or drop the detainer placed against him with the Warden of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia.
Petitioner alleges that he is in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta; that a detainer has been placed against him by the Sheriff of Houston County, Alabama, on three charges of forgery in that county; that he has filed a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum with the Circuit Court of Houston County; that the writ has not been answered, and he prays that this court will order the circuit court "to bring movant to trial, or detainer against movant be dropped."
The petition for mandamus must be dismissed. It has been held many times that no constitutional right to a speedy trial is denied by a state court, when the delay in trial is because the accused is in a federal prison. Kirby v. State, 222 Md. 421, 160 A.2d 786, and cases there cited. See also Accardo v. State, 39 Ala.App. 453, 102 So. 2d 913. The rule and the reason therefor is stated in McCary v. Kansas, 10th Cir., 281 F.2d 185:
Petition for writ dismissed.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and SIMPSON and HARWOOD, JJ., concur.