Roberts v. State

Brun£, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Roberts, an indigent defendant, represented in this Court by counsel appointed by the Court pursuant to § 15A of Article 5 of the 1957 Code, 1958 Supp., appeals from his conviction on a charge of assault and battery. He urges that paragraphs b and c of Maryland Rule 723 1 relating to a defendant’s right to counsel in the trial court were not complied with and that because of the lack of counsel an ingredient of unfairness entered into the proceedings resulting in his conviction and incarceration and that he was thus denied due process of law in…