Boutwell v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree by a grand jury of Escambia County, Alabama. He was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, from which judgment of conviction he appeals. The • sentence was 30 years imprisonment in the penitentiary for the murder of Shirley Ann Mosley.

Defendant was an indigent-and unable to employ counsel to represent him either at the preliminary, when he was bound over to the action of the grand jury, or when he was tried on a plea of not guilty in the nisi prius court. Prior to arraignment, the trial judge of the circuit court of Escambia…