State v. Pedie

The defendant was arrested July 31, 1928, charged with arson in the third degree. She waived preliminary examination and was held to answer to the district court of Bottineau county. No term of the court had been called, but the next day one of the judges of the district court was in Bottineau and there were present in the court house for the purpose of holding court, the district judge, court reporter, state’s attorney, sheriff with the defendant in custody, and defendant’s husband, but no counsel for defendant. At that time an information was filed, the defendant arraigned, and after some…