Germany v. State

Banke, Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of the defendant’s motion to withdraw her guilty plea in a prosecution for welfare fraud. The defendant was not represented by counsel at the arraignment and on questioning by the district attorney agreed to waive her right to counsel.

We previously reversed the conviction on the ground that the trial court had failed to address the defendant personally to determine whether she understood either the nature of the charge or the rights which she was waiving, as required by Purvis v. Connell, 227 Ga. 764 (182 SE2d 892) (1971) and Weathers v. State,…