Pharr v. State

CATES, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of burglary in the second degree, carrying a penitentiary sentence of ten years.

We have only the record proper (or common law record) before us. The sole point claimed as error, is that after nine extensions of time, the circuit court reporter has failed to render a transcription of his shorthand notes of the testimony given at the trial.

The trial judge supervises the court reporter. Inasmuch as the circuit judge is the appointing authority, he holds the ultima ratio to persuade. See Michie’s 1958 Code, T. 13, §§ 261-270(1c); also…