State v. Fairclough

FOLLAND, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of mayhem alleged to have been committed August 28,' 1932, by willfully and maliciously slitting the nose of Mrs. Harvel Maxwell. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled and the defendant sentenced to an indeterminate term in the State Prison. Numerous errors have been assigned on this appeal, but these may be grouped into four classes, as follows: First, the defendant was denied his constitutional right to a fair and impartial trial, in that he was denied the assistance of counsel; second, that the court failed in its instructions properly to…