White v. State

The record on return to remand establishes that the nineteen year old defendant and his father retained Attorney John R. Barnes to represent the defendant on the charge now on appeal. Mr. Barnes is an experienced trial attorney having both prosecuted and defended individuals in criminal trials in his thirty-one years of practice.

Attorney Barnes testified that "(a)fter a conference with Billy White, the father of Keith White (the defendant), in the presence of Keith White, I recommended that we not have a court reporter."

"Q. Did you specifically ask them whether they wanted the court reporter…