State v. Ross

Defendant is an indigent. The trial court entered an order permitting him to appeal in forma pauperis and directed that the County of Cleveland furnish defendant’s counsel a transcript of the trial. Defendant’s counsel was ordered by the court to perfect his appeal, and the case on appeal and defendant’s brief were mimeographed at public expense.

This is the second appeal in this case. At the July 1966 Session of Cleveland County Superior Court, defendant was convicted for the identical offenses for which he was convicted in the instant case. At that Session he received sentences substantially…