State v. Floyd

Thomas Lee Floyd, the defendant, appeals from a judgment and sentence entered following a jury verdict which found him guilty of robbery. Floyd’s counsel on appeal (who was not his trial counsel) brings two assignments of error, supplemented by several made by Floyd, pro se, in a “supplemental brief.”

Floyd and his counsel, in their respective briefs, agree that because defendant’s trial counsel did not call several witnesses requested by the defendant, he was not competently represented and consequently did not receive a fair trial. In particular, defendant alleges that his girl friend, Mary…