If any person indicted for any offense, and held to answer on bail, shall not be brought to trial before the end of the third term of the court in which the cause is pending which shall be held after such indictment found, he shall be entitled to be discharged, so far as relates to such offense, unless the delay happened on his application, or be occasioned by the want of time to try such cause at such third term.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 545.900
Defendant on bail — discharged if not tried before end of third term
Effective: 28 Aug 1939; (RSMo 1939 § 4086); Prior revisions: 1929 § 3697; 1919 § 4041; 1909 § 5247
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.