Billie v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

These appeals follow convictions for the offense of aggravated rape wherein the jury assessed punishment for both appellants at thirty years confinement.

At the outset, we must address appellants’ contentions that the trial court erred in failing to grant their requests for a transcription of the court reporter’s notes of their first trial which ended in a hung jury. We conclude, for reasons about to be stated, that under the Supreme Court’s holding of Britt v. North Carolina, 404 U.S. 226, 92 S.Ct. 431, 30 L.Ed.2d 400 (1971), each appellant was entitled to a…