Powell v. State

PIERCE, Judge.

The two appellants, Powell and Wright, were jointly charged by information with the crime of robbery. Later after trial upon a plea of not guilty, they were convicted by a jury and adjudged guilty and sentenced by the Court. They have jointly appealed here. The sole assignment of error and the only ground argued in this Court is “that the trial Court committed prejudicial error by violating the defendants’ constitutional right to counsel in that the Court appointed the Public Defender to represent the indigent co-defendants at their joint trial”.

Defendants rely here upon the…