Higgenbottom v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the death of a witness did not constitute prejudice to the defendant where the witness died “prior to the attachment of his constitutional rights to a speedy trial”
• interview of defendant during investigative process could not be equated with actual knowledge of perpetrator’s identity
• “Under OCGA § 17-3-2 (2), the applicable statute of limitation is tolled during any period in which the person committing the crime is unknown or the crime is unknown.” (punctuation and footnote omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).