STATE v. BROOKS

No. 8029SC67.

270 S.E.2d 592 (1980)

STATE of North Carolina v. Wayne Haywood BROOKS.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Archie W. Anders, Raleigh, for the State.

C. Frank Goldsmith, Jr., Marion, for defendant-appellant.


CLARK, Judge.

The indigent defendant moved "to represent himself as a jailhouse lawyer." He was advised of his right to have counsel trained in the law to represent him but he filed a written waiver and insisted on proceeding pro se. He thereupon filed numerous, voluminous and repetitious pretrial motions, which account for about half of the 511-page record on appeal.

Defendant now assigns as error the trial court's allowing him to represent himself...

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