Birdsell v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant has been convicted of obtaining goods in the value of $47.84 by false pretense. His motion for a new trial being overruled appellant on the same day filed a motion for leave to prosecute an appeal in forma pauperis and requesting that he be furnished with the transcript of the evidence.

This court was confronted with the doctrine of Griffin v. People of State of Illinois, 351 U.S. 12, 76 S.Ct. 585, 100 L.Ed. 891, in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that failure of a State to furnish an indigent appellant with a full transcript on appeal…