GA 17-12-24 - GA 17-12-24

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor's notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Code Section 17-12-2 are included in the annotations for this Code Section. "Indigent person." - If defendant retains trial counsel and then claims indigence on appeal, the defendant bears the burden of making that fact known to the trial court or some responsible state official. Seay v. State, 220 Ga. App. 418 , 469 S.E.2d 496 (1996) (decided under former O.C.G.A. § 17-12-2 ). Because the trial court did not hold a plea withdrawal hearing and did not make a record of the court's determination of the defendant's indigency for appeal, the appellate court could not determine if the trial court abused the court's discretion or followed the procedures of former O.C.G.A. §§ 17-12-...