State v. Gomori

On January 6, 1971, a motion was filed in this court on behalf of defendant by his court appointed counsel for an order requiring the preparation of a transcript of testimony at county expense. A similar motion had been denied by the trial court for the following reasons:

“Request for transcript, etc., must be made to Clerk not to Trial Judge. R. C. 2953.03 and 70 Ohio Law Abs. 396, syl. 3. There is nothing before Court to establish indigency of defendant.”

This brief recital reveals some of the confusion in this case. The Clerk of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court had already prepared a…