State v. Prade

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The defendant was convicted of] an assault with intent to commit rape, and sentenced to three years’ hard labor in the penitentiary.

The complaints urged by him on appeal are those reserved 'in a bill of exception to the action of the District Court in overruling a motion for a new trial.

The first ground assigned for a new trial was that when his cause was called for trial the attorney whom he had employed to defend him announced in open court that he withdrew from the case, but immediately accepted, at the request of the court, the…