Gilchrist v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was, by the jury trying his case, found “guilty as charged in the indictment,” upon a trial under an indictment consisting of two counts: The first charging burglary in the second degree - under the act approved June 6, 1935 (Gen.Acts Ala.1935, p. 159), now codified as section 3481(1) of the 1936 Cumulative Supplement to the Alabama Code of 1928, published by the Michie Company; and the second charging grand larceny under Code 1928, § 4905.

While this court has held that the “trial court is under no legal duty to appoint counsel for accused, unless he has been indicted…