被告人侯华军,男,十七岁,因盗窃罪被判处有期徒刑六年。被告人及其法定代理人(父、母)不服,以原判量刑过重为理由,上诉于北京市中级人民法院。并委托律师为他辩护。我接受此案后,仔细地查阅了本案材料,了解了案情,发现上诉人侯华军犯罪时尚未成年,而一审法院审判时却没有为他指定辩护人。我认为审判程序是否合法是关系到能否正确审判的重要问题,同时,被告人的责任年令还直接关系到量刑的轻重。为此,我 Hou Huajun, male, seventeen years of age, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for theft. The defendant and his legal representative (father and mother) were dissatisfied with the appeal and were appealed to the Beijing Intermediate People’s Court on the ground that the original sentence was too heavy. And commissioned a lawyer to defend him. After I accepted the case, I consulted the materials of this case carefully to get the facts of the case and found out that the appellant Hou Huajun was a minor criminal at the time of trial, but the court of first instance did not nominate a defender for him. In my opinion, whether or not the trial procedure is legal is an important issue that concerns the correct trial. At the same time, the order of responsibility of the accused is directly related to the severity of sentencing. For this, me