State v. Neely

LAND, Justice.

Defendant was convicted in the lower court of the larceny of a belt of the value of $50, the property of the Sabine Production Company, and was sentenced to a term of one year in the State Penitentiary.

Bill of exception No. 4 is the only bill in the case that has any merit, and was reserved by the defendant to the refusal of the trial judge to appoint counsel to represent him, upon his request, under the following circumstances:

Defendant requested the court to appoint counsel for him on September 30, 1936, when the case was first fixed for trial, and also requested the' court,…