Carroll v. State

OPINION

REX D. DAVIS, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted Randy Lorine Carroll of driving while intoxicated. The court sentenced him to seventy days’ confine ment in the county jail. Carroll perfected a pro se appeal.

We abated this cause on October 3, 2001 for a hearing to ensure that Carroll had knowingly and intelligently chosen to represent himself on appeal. See Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 835, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 2541, 45 L.Ed.2d 562, 581-82 (1975); Collier v. State, 959 S.W.2d 621, 625-26 & n. 8. (Tex.Crim.App.1997). Carroll failed to appear at a hearing scheduled by the trial court for…