Creamer v. State

On Motion for Rehearing.

Nichols, Justice.

The contention has been made that the defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights to due process have been violated and that such violation (right to counsel while the physician examined him under court order) vitiated the later judgment ordering the removal of the bullet.

On September 1st, at the original hearing where counsel was appointed until the defendant’s own counsel arrived to represent him, the trial court ordered that until the arrival of defendant’s own counsel no questioning, no examination and no interrogation would take place out of the presence…