State v. Keel

Defendant was tried first on this charge at the December 1968 Session of Superior Court of Waice County. This trial resulted in a mistrial due to the inability of the jurors to agree upon a verdict. After this mistrial the defendant, an indigent, on 17 January 1969, filed a motion requesting that he be provided, at public expense, with a transcript of the evidence presented at the December 1968 trial which ended in a mistrial. The reason stated in the motion is “that he deems it necessary to have a transcript of the evidence presented at his first trial in order that he may properly prepare…