Wingard v. State

The appellant was arrested and subsequently an Information was filed by the State Attorney charging that the appellant “did unlawfully feloniously falsely utter and publish as true to Bob Galino a false, forged, altered and counterfeited instrument, commonly called a bank check.” Appellant was not represented by privately retained counsel at the time he appeared before the court when the Information was read to him. The record-on-appeal contains the following information as to appellant’s waiver of court-appointed counsel at the time of his arraignment:

“He has no money to hire counsel, nor…