State v. Jacobs

Appellant was convicted of the possession and sale of marijuana and was sentenced to five (5) years imprisonment suspended upon the service of eighteen (18) months followed by five (S) years probation. The sole issue raised on appeal is whether appellant was denied his right to counsel and his right to the effective assistance of counsel by the trial judge’s calling his case to trial when he was not represented by retained counsel and had only the assistance of a public defender requested to sit with him during the trial.

Appellant had turned himself in on May 23, 1977 pursuant to an arrest…