Brooks v. Peyton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statutory right to speedy trial is non-jurisdictional
• barring review of a claim in habeas because habeas may not be used as a substitute for appeal
• statutory discharge from prosecution for delay in bringing to trial waived by failure to make timely objection
• “When an original indictment is supplanted by a second indictment, the terms contemplated by the statute are to be counted from the time of the second indictment.”
• involving Code § 19.1-191, former speedy trial statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).