State v. Hudson

This case comes before us on the defendant’s exception to the denial by the superior court of his motion for funds to prosecute a bill of exceptions.

The defendant, an indigent prisoner, represented by counsel appointed by the court, was convicted by a jury of breaking and eutering in the night time and larceny. A motion for a new trial was denied. The defendant then moved that the court grant him funds to prosecute a bill of exceptions. This motion was denied by the trial justice on the grounds that the superior court has no power to make such an order and that, assuming that such power did…