State v. Cowart

Moss, Chief Justice.

Billy Cowart and Danny Lee Cowart, the appellants herein, were convicted of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in the September 1967 term of Green-ville County Criminal Court upon an indictment returned by the grand jury of Greenville County December, 1966. At the time of trial Billy Cowart was 20 years of age and Danny Lee Cowart was 17 years of age. The appellants appeared in court in February, April and September, 1967, and requested the county judge to appoint counsel for them on the grounds that they were indigent and did not have the necessary funds…