Smith v. Morgan

COWART, JOE A., Jr., Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of an amended petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.

*13The appellant was charged with violation of a St. Petersburg municipal ordinance, signed a waiver of counsel form, pled guilty and was sentenced to 10 days confinement. The application for habeas corpus, and this appeal from its denial, are primarily based on the argument that Ar-gersinger v. Hamlin, 1972, 407 U.S. 25, 92 S.Ct. 2006, 32 L.Ed.2d 530, requires counsel in misdemeanor cases and that the waiver of counsel in this case was not knowingly and intelligently made…