State v. Hannah

MANFORD, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for assault, third degree, a Class A misdemeanor, § 565.070, RSMo 1978. The Honorable Herbert S. Brown, Associate Circuit Judge of Grundy County was assigned by the Honorable James J. Wheeler, Circuit Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, as Special Judge to hear this cause. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

The sole question is whether reversible error occurred when the trial court permitted this case to go to trial without appellant’s being represented by counsel without first having executed a written waiver of counsel pursuant…