State v. Healy

The defendant was convicted, on a trial to the court in which he was not represented by counsel, of the crimes of pool selling in violation of § 53-295 of the General Statutes and breach of the peace in violation of § 53-174, and has appealed, assigning as error that the court neglected to advise him of his constitutional right to counsel and failed to give him a fair and impartial trial.

The facts are not in dispute. On December 22, 1961, at about 11 a.m., one Paul Kurlik placed a $2 bet with the defendant on a horse named "Astrology" which ran in the fifth or sixth race at the Charles Town…