State v. Grandison

Beasley, Judge.

Defendant was indicted on June 9 for trafficking in cocaine (OCGA § 16-13-31) and entered a plea of not guilty at his arraignment on August 17. He appeared without counsel, who had earlier filed a “notice of conflict” setting out that the scheduled arraignment might conflict with other cases pending in other courts. No objection was made to defendant’s arraignment, and no request for its continuance was made, either in advance by counsel or, insofar as the record shows, by defendant at the time set for arraignment. Nor was any request made for an extension of time for the…