Hicks v. State

Banke, Judge.

The appellant appeals her conviction for prostitution.

1. The trial court erred in conducting the appellant’s arraignment over her objection that she had not been given the three-day notice of arraignment by Code Ann. § 27-1401. Although that Code section provides as a general rule that the appearance and entering of a plea is to be deemed a waiver of the notice requirement, defense counsel in this case expressly invoked his client’s right to the notice and stated that she did not intend by entering a plea to waive that right. The state’s argument that the appellant had previously…