"THE COURT: All right. Comes on for hearing the motion for failure to provide a Court Reporter and move to dismiss. The occasion for this particular motion is that during the vior dire examination in the absence of a reporter the Assistant District Attorney asked the jurors whether or not they'd been reading the papers about the proposed changes in laws concerning marihuana, stimulants, LSD and so forth, and he even went so far as to ask the jurors if they realized that, under the proposed amendments, LSD, the possession of LSD would become a felony; to that some objection was made by the defense attorney and the Court felt that, since the damage, if any, had been done, the admonition to the jury which followed by the Court to the effect that we are trying this case under laws that exist today and we're trying only this particular offense, was sufficient at the time, and, accordingly, the request for reporter was denied at that point."

"* * * A refusal of the court to permit of to require any statement to be taken down by the court reporter or transcribed after being taken down, upon the same being shown by affidavit of other direct and competent evidence, to the Supreme Court, or other appellate court, shall constitute a denial of due process of law. * * * A trial or proceedings may proceed without the necessity of a court reporter being present, unless there is objection by a party or counsel. * * *" (Emphasis added)