STATE v. HACKNEY

No. 221.

81 S.E.2d 778 (1954)

240 N.C. 230

STATE v. HACKNEY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen., and Ralph Moody, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Ike F. Andrews, W. Reid Thompson and Wade Barber, Pittsboro, for defendant, petitioner Appellant.


PARKER, Justice.

While Judge Williams did not specifically find that the petitioner, James W. Hackney, requested the judge at the January Term 1950 of the Superior Court of Chatham County to appoint counsel to represent him at the trial, and the judge failed to do so, the evidence is uncontradicted to that effect, and we assume such to be the fact. Petitioner's contention that this deprived him of a substantial constitutional...

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