Glasgow v. State

The respondent in this case, Abraham Glasgow, was convicted of arson in the Criminal Court of Knox County. The Court of Criminal Appeals set aside the conviction, a majority of that Court holding that “the judge failed to comply with [our] statute requiring a written waiver of counsel * * * as well as the statute for determining in-digency.” We granted the State’s petition for certiorari and reverse, adopting the dissenting opinion of Judge W. Wayne Oliver as a part of the opinion of the Court.

All of the assignments of error made in the Court of Criminal Appeals, and the arguments on…