Brooks v. State

SMITH, Judge.

After a county court jury trial in which he was unattended by counsel, petitioner Brooks was convicted of unlawful assembly1 and malicious trespass 2 and was sentenced to pay a fine of $500.3 The judg*648ments were affirmed on his appeal to the circuit court, which found that Brooks “with knowledge of his right to counsel intelligently waived such right.” By petition for writ of certiorari Brooks asserts that the county court did not appropriately caution him against the perils of self-representation and that, in affirming his convictions, the circuit court departed from essential…