Washington v. City of Atlanta

Carley, Presiding Judge.

Without the benefit of counsel, appellant appeared in municipal court and entered guilty pleas to charges that she had violated municipal ordinances. Thereafter, she petitioned the superior court for a writ of certiorari, asserting that her guilty pleas had not been entered after a knowing and intelligent waiver of counsel. When the superior court denied appellant’s petition for the writ of certiorari, she applied to this court for a discretionary appeal and the instant appeal results from the grant of her application.

“Courts are to ‘. . . satisfy themselves that pleas…