Hamlin v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

— Affirming.

The appellant, Oscar Hamlin, was convicted of the crime of maliciously striking and wounding another with intent to kill and was sentenced in the August, 1940, term of the McCreary circuit court to confinement at hard labor in the state reformatory at Lagrange, Kentucky, for a period of 2 years.

Appellant seeks reversal upon the ground that the trial court denied him the right of representation by counsel guaranteed in section 11 of the constitution of Kentucky. The rule is well settled that, although the constitution guarantees to the…