Spears v. Commonwealth

HELM, Justice.

Appellant Roosevelt Spears, was indicted for the murder of Charles Edward Thompson.. At a trial he was found guilty and his punishment fixed at death. He appeals, assigning as errors: (1) The inexperience of counsel appointed to represent the defendant rendered his appointment so ineffectual that the defendant was deprived of the right secured to him by Section 11 of the Kentucky Constitution to be heard by himself and counsel; (2) the court erred in setting the case for trial only eleven days after counsel was appointed to defend the appellant, in the light of the facts of the…