Rose v. State

Stolz, Judge.

At the call of the appellant’s case for trial on two separate charges of criminal trespass (Code Ann. § 26-1503; Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1285; 1969, pp. 857, 859), the trial judge, after informing the appellant and three others indicted for the same offense as to the legal effect of the pleas which they could enter, asked, "I assume you don’t have lawyers?” All four of the accuseds, including the appellant, answered in the negative, whereupon the judge told them, "Well, you will have to represent yourselves. What is it y’all want to do?” The appellant, as well as the others,…