Odom v. State

The principal question presented for decision on this appeal is whether or not the trial court was required to furnish, or offer to furnish, an attorney to represent the accused Biley Odom upon his trial on the non-capital felony charge of having committed the crime of burglary, for which he was convicted and sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of three years.

Unless the trial court owed the above mentioned duty to the accused, in the absence of a request for an attorney or showing of inability to employ one, in order to comply with the requirements of the Federal Constitution or…