State v. Peterson

The state does not challenge the fact,that it is the established rule in this state that the participation in the trial of a criminal case in court by an attorney paid by private parties is error sufficient to vitiate the conviction. But it is claimed by the state that the assistance given in the trial of this case was not such as to come within the *353established rule. That at most all that Mr. Grubb, the private attorney, did was to sit at the district attorney’s table while the jury was being drawn, and that afterwards he refrained from coming into the court room though he remained in Prairie…