Application of Lopez

STRUCKMEYER, Vice Chief Justice.

Alexander Lopez, an inmate of the Arizona State Prison at Florence, Arizona, filed with this Court a motion for leave to take a delayed appeal pursuant to Rule 16(a), Rules of the Supreme Court, 17 A.R.S., as amended 1964. Accompanying his motion was his affidavit deposing that he had been convicted in a criminal action on March 29, 1963; that prior to the time of the expiration of his right to appeal, he requested his court-appointed counsel to appeal the case to this Court; that his court-appointed counsel advised him that he was resigning from representing…