Leigh v. Johnson

BRETT, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus, in which petitioner requests this Court to direct the Honorable W. Lee Johnson, district judge of Tulsa County, to provide court appointed counsel and casemade at public expense in his appeal of district court case No. 22649, in which case petitioner was convicted for knowingly receiving stolen property, after former conviction of a felony. He was found guilty by a jury, which imposed an indeterminate sentence in the state penitentiary at Mc-Alester, Oklahoma. The jury’s verdict of guilty was returned on September 15, 1967, and judgment…