Howard v. Felton

*289SMITH, Justice.

April 25, 1959, criminal complaints were filed in the justice’s court of John H. Maynard, justice of the peace, at Lewiston, Nez Perce County, separately charging William H. Johnson and LaVerne F. Whitlock with selling liquor without a license, a felony as defined by I.C. § 23-938.

Appellant, Henry Felton, and his son, Warren Felton, both attorneys, were engaged as counsel to, and did, represent the accused in both cases. Johnson was acquitted. The conviction of Whitlock was reversed on appeal, see State v. Whitlock, 82 Idaho 540, 356 P.2d 492.

At the preliminary hearings of…