Cook v. State

Movant Asa Cook in this Criminal Rule No. 1, F.S.A. ch. 924 Appendix, proceeding is seeking to set aside a sentence and judgment of conviction resulting from his plea of guilty entered on the 22nd day of October, A.D. 1963 in the Circuit Court in and for Madison County, Florida. In his motion, Cook alleges that he was sentenced without “ * * * legal aid of counsel to advice [sic] the appellant of his rights in said court”. The trial court in denying the defendant’s motion found in its order:

“ * * * the Court having personally presided at this trial and at the hearing, and the Court having…