Skelton v. State

Order Reversing Conviction and Remanding for New Trial.

Larry Eugene Skelton has appealed his LeFlore County District Court conviction for Burglary of an Automobile, After Former Conviction of Two Felonies. He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment.

This case must be reversed and remanded for the reason that the appellant was represented at trial by the same attorney who prosecuted the case at the arraignment and preliminary hearing as the Assistant District Attorney. Reversal is mandated notwithstanding the appellant’s waiver of objection to representation by that attorney.

This Court has…