SASHNER v. STATE

1 Div. 97.

243 So.2d 390 (1970)

Willie Lee SASHNER v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Dennis Porter, Chatom, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Lloyd G. Hart, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CATES, Judge.

First degree burglary: sentence, 99 years and 1 day.

We find it compulsory to reverse the conviction below because the record does not affirmatively show that the defendant on arraignment personally pled not guilty, nor does it show that he was attended by counsel when arraigned on the 4th of March 1970.

The form of arraignment used by the court below was specifically held to be defective by...

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