Luntz v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

— Reversing.

Bill Luntz has been convicted of the crime of robbery, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of ten years. He seeks a reversal of the judgment on a number of grounds, but principally argues in his brief that the court-erred in refusing to continue the case or to appoint an attorney to represent him and .in failing to give written instructions.

The record is very unsatisfactory, and it is difficult to ascertain from it just what transpired at the trial. ■Only the orders of the court appear, and these seem to be…