MacK v. Youmans

Felton, Justice.

1. Waiver of counsel and the voluntary, intelligent entry of guilty pleas, cannot be presumed from a silent record, but must be affirmatively shown by the record, or by an allegation and evidence. Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U. S. 238 (89 SC 1709, 23 LE2d 274); Purvis v. Connell, 221 Ga. 764 (182 SE2d 892).

2. The record is otherwise silent as to the two above-mentioned acts of the accused and no such affirmative showing as is now required was supplied by affidavits of the trial judge and a state probation officer who was present at the trial in his official capacity, which…