Parks v. State

Phipps, Judge.

James Parks was charged by accusation with two counts of public drunkenness. Parks pled not guilty and requested a jury trial. At trial, Parks proceeded pro se. The jury found him guilty on both counts, and the trial court sentenced him to serve 30 days in confinement and 23 months on probation.

Parks was charged with being intoxicated and boisterous at an establishment called Shooter’s and at the Waffle House on December 21, 1999, in violation of OCGA § 16-11-41. He filed a motion to dismiss in which he asserted that he was not at either establishment on the date referenced in…