Wooten v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

This case is here again for review after it was remanded in Wooten v. State, 162 Ga. App. 719 (293 SE2d 11), with direction that the trial court have a hearing on the question of whether “defendant personally, knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently participated” in the waiver of a jury trial by his then counsel.

When the case was called for trial counsel for the state announced to the court that the defense wished “to waive a jury,” at which time defense counsel announced in the presence of the *169defendant “that is correct, your Honor.” Whereupon, the trial was…