Pollard v. State

Benham, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated assault wherein appellant enumerates as error a violation of his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation, in that the jury trial was conducted in his absence. In this same vein he claims that he never was arraigned and that neither he nor his attorney expressly waived arraignment. Since the peculiar factual posture of appellant’s enumeration concerning trial in his absence represents a question of first impression before this court, a brief recitation of the facts is necessary.

More than one week before trial, appellant’s counsel…