Schoolfield v. Darwin, Judge

This case is improperly styled. It is really an appeal from an order of the court made in the case of State of Tennessee v. J. P. Tucker and Dan, Bledsoe, who were jointly indicted for burglary. Eaulston Schoolfield, Esquire, a member of the Chattanooga Bar, was appointed by the court to represent both these defendants and declined to serve in that capacity, as will hereafter appear. The court fined him $50 for contempt on account of this refusal and he has appealed to this Court.

When the case was called in this Court we did not understand how it originated and transferred it to the Court of…