State v. Barness

Nelson, Judge.

It appears from the files and proceedings available in this case that the defendant was heretofore convicted of the alleged crime of robbery in the first degree by a jury in the District Court for Hennepin County, December 13, 1955.

Defendant was bound over on the above charge to the said district court on September 13, 1955. The public defender for said county was duly appointed as counsel for defendant September 14, 1955. Later defendant was called into court and informed that the public defender would not defend in his case but that another lawyer, Franklyn Petri, Jr., was…