Gresham v. Page

BRETT, Judge:

Robert E. Lee Gresham, Jr., filed an application with this Court for a writ of mandamus, requiring the Tulsa County district court to furnish him a case made at county expense.

Petitioner employed his own counsel when he was tried before a jury, found guilty of the crime of second degree burglary, after former conviction of a felony. Petitioner was sentenced to serve from fifteen to forty-five years in the State Penitentiary.

On the basis of petitioner’s application, on November 17, 1965, this Court directed the district court of Tulsa County to conduct an evidentiary hearing into…