Sams v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged with the offense of simple battery occurring February 9,1981. On February 10,1981, he appeared in the Atlanta Municipal Court, waived hearing and the case was bound over to the Fulton County State Court. An accusation was prepared on March 4,1981, and on “6/4/81” he entered an arraignment plea of not guilty and waiver of trial by jury without an attorney and at that time apparently did not request that counsel be appointed because of indigency and inability to employ counsel of his own choosing; nor did he show that he had retained counsel or…