State v. Redden

STARCHER, Justice:

The appellant, Ronnie Redden, was convicted in January 1996 of first degree sexual assault, in a bench trial before the Circuit Court of Mercer County. The appellant waived his right to trial by jury. On appeal of his conviction, the appellant asserts that the trial court erred in determining that the appellant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily waived his right to a jury trial. The appellant also assigns as error the trial court’s failure to require that his jury trial waiver be in writing, in accordance with Rule 23(a) of the West Virginia Rules of Criminal…