In Re Patterson's Petition

Patterson was tried on a charge of confidence game, found guilty by a jury, and sentenced to the penitentiary. His efforts thereafter to obtain a “transcript or bill of exceptions” from the trial court without cost to him were unsuccessful. He now has petitioned this court for leave to prosecute a writ of error in forma pauperis. '

His inability to pay for and secure a transcription of the trial proceedings is laid before us, together with an affidavit of indigency. Upon this showing Patterson seeks an order from this court directing the. trial court to have prepared without cost to him a bill…