People v. Winningham

Defendant’s coram nobis application contains a challenge to the validity of the judgment of conviction, because he was not represented by counsel at any time during the prosecution of the indictment.

*651The record of the case discloses, however, a consistent course of conduct indicating an unequivocal waiver of this right.

In it I find that on the day of arraignment and plea, and also two weeks later, on the day of sentence, when the court offered to assign counsel in his behalf, defendant flatly refused the offer in each instance. And, it is to be noticed that despite the intervening period from…