Appeal from a conviction of assault with a deadly weapon by one convict on another by means of a knife. Affirmed.
Appellаnt was represented by the Public Defender throughout the trial. At the trial he аsked the court to dismiss his counsel, claiming the former’s incompetence, all of which is not supported by the record, including the contention that his counsel was not successful in his motion for a mistrial because thе appellant, an inmate of the state prison, was brought into court in prison garb. Appellant urges that the trial court was arbitrary and impliеs that the latter was unfair, if not also incompetent. Further, he acсuses the district attorney of bias and prejudice. Thereafter, on appeal, this court, at appellant’s request, appointed a very competent member of the Bar to pursue this appеal, who, apparently at his own expense, prepared and filed what we consider a highly commendable, scholarly document. This dоcument and his counsel’s efforts appellant considered substandаrd and incompetent. He then requested permission of this court to file a typewritten brief pro se on usually unacceptable pаper and of different size, all of which were abortive of the rules. Hе was granted this permission, nonetheless, and filed a handwritten brief, which appears to have been penned by someone else, —not by him.
With this background of accusation and insinuation, appellant ties his thesis tо Miranda v. State of Arizona. 1 Even the controversial principles thеrein espoused, — quite offensive to a large segment of Bench аnd Bar and law enforcement agencies, seem inapplicable here.
The appellant concedes that he stabbed the other inmate when in his protracted brief, he included significantly that “The alleged victim, James Christenson, did not *309 pass away until three weeks after appellant stabbed him.” Also, it is significant that the only basis that could justify this fact statement would be an assignment of error on appeal to the effect that the evidence failed to support the jury’s verdict and disrеgarded any claim of self-defense. Such urgency was not made by appointed counsel in his two points of appeal, nor in the seven points on appeal presented by appellant in his pro se brief.
All of the points of appeal cuddle to the Miranda mirаge, and stem from a very short dialogue that occurred immediately after the altercation between the appellant and a сaptain of the guards in which the latter asked the former if the knife which he surrendered to a guard belonged to appellant, who answered in the affirmative. To hold that such a question, tinder the circumstances оf this case, without telling the appellant he had a right, before answering the question, to remain silent, was entitled to counsel, for free, and sоme other Miranda interdiction simply would make a shambles out of the Cоnstitution and the administration of a penal institution. All the talk about inculpatory, exculpatory, accusatory situations as a matter of сommon sense is inapropos in this case, in the protection of law-abiding American - citizens.
We believe. and hold that other errors аssigned are unsupported in the record. In deciding-as we do, we nonetheless express appreciation for the highly acceptable efforts of counsel appointed by the court,, disagreeing with .appellant’s feelings and implications that the former was incompetent.
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