State v. Haynes

The defendant and one Ackermann were indicted for the unlawful possession of a still and still worm, without having the same registered. Ackermann pleaded guilty and the defendant Haynes pleaded not guilty. Several days prior thereto the case had been set for trial on February 16, 1926. The defendant had retained Frank Dick as his attorney, who, discovering early on the date of the trial that the codefendant, who was to appear as a witness for the state, was intending to change his testimony, withdrew from the defense by leave of court. The court then granted the defendant an hour in which to…