Rambo v. Larrabee

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Cunningham, J. :

By chapter 390, Laws of 1903, entitled “An act concerning criminal appeals in counties containing more than 65,000 inhabitants, in certain cases,” it is provided that any person who has been, or who shall hereafter be, convicted of murder or manslaughter in any county containing more than '65,000 inhabitants, who files with the clerk of the court in which said person was convicted his affidavit setting forth that he believes that he has a just cause for appeal, and that by reason of his poverty he is unable to pay the stenographer for a…