Whether W.________ should be granted appointed ex officio counsel in the appeal proceedings.
No. The case was not sufficiently difficult in fact or law, and the appellant had already been able to defend himself effectively; the statutory conditions for ex officio counsel were not met.
Although indigent, he was not in a case of mandatory defence. The matter was simple, he had previously said he did not need a lawyer, and no special circumstance made counsel indispensable at this stage.