Case Name: Dewey DENTON, Petitioner, v. BECKHAM COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, and the State of Oklahoma, Respondents
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1968-04-24
Citations: 440 P.2d 206
Docket Number: No. A-14641
Parties: Dewey DENTON, Petitioner, v. BECKHAM COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, and the State of Oklahoma, Respondents.
Judges: BUSSEY and BRETT, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 2d
Volume: 440
Pages: 206–206

Head Matter:
Dewey DENTON, Petitioner, v. BECKHAM COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, and the State of Oklahoma, Respondents.
No. A-14641.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.
April 24, 1968.
Dewey Denton, pro se.
No response by State.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM OPINION
NIX, Presiding Judge.
This is an Original Proceeding filed by the petitioner, Herbert Houston Aaron, seeking an order of this Court directing the District Court of Beckham County, Oklahoma to grant him a speedy trial in case #1903 pending there; or dismiss same. Petitioner is presently confined in the Arizona State Prison, Florence, Arizona.
Under the conditions herewith presented, this Court is of the opinion that this petition should be denied under the authority of Hobbs v. State, Okl.Cr.App., 417 P.2d 934.
Writ denied.
BUSSEY and BRETT, JJ., concur.