Grant v. State

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge.

This is an original proceeding instituted by Loyd Grant, an inmate of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, for a Writ of Mandamus, directing that the Honorable Ralph B. Hodges, authorize the District Court Reporter of Bryan County to prepare a case made at public expense for said petitioner.

As grounds for relief sought, petitioner states that he was charged by information with the Crime' of Murder in the District Court of Bryan County on the 19th of September 1962. That at the time of trial in this cause he was without funds to retain an attorney and prepare…