State v. Rubio

OPINION

SCOTT, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal he has presented one issue, questioning whether the trial judge erred by overruling defense counsel’s motion to be relieved.

The appellant, a Cuban, was indicted at the September 1985 term of the Davidson County Grand Jury. At his arraignment on October 25, 1985, the Davidson County Public Defender was appointed as his counsel. Richard L. Kaiser, an Assistant Public Defender, was assigned to represent him and was listed as his counsel of record in the minute entries…