State v. Sands

Defendant was indicted, tried by jury and convicted of the crime of larceny of livestock (OES 164.380), and by sentence committed to the Corrections Division for a term of three years. She appeals, asserting seven assignments of error.

Five of the seven arise because the defendant represented herself at the trial. A sixth asserts error in denying to defendant trial before an impartial jury, and a seventh claims the sentence imposed constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

We' note at the outset that we are seriously handicapped in our consideration of this case by the inadequacy of the…