OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
CLINTON, Judge.Our prior opinion is withdrawn.
In light of the unorthodox way our earlier opinion was produced, the State, in effect, is urging that the Court En Banc engage in its essential function of reviewing an initial opinion on original submission to a panel of the Court.1 Through examination of portions of the record now pointed to by the State and upon further reflection we believed there is enough substance to certain grounds for rehearing formulated by the State,2 and granted leave to file to determine anew whether more than the requirements of Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975) (Faretta), must be satisfied and, if not, whether they were met by the trial court below.
Faretta finds in the Sixth Amendment an independent constitutional right of an accused to conduct his own defense. 422 U.S. at 836, 95 S.Ct. at 2541. Thus, the right to selfrepresentation does not arise from one’s power to waive assistance of counsel. Id., at 814-820, 95 S.Ct. at 2530-2533. Therefore, it is for the accused personally to decide whether assistance of counsel in his particular case is to his advantage, and “his choice must be honored out of ‘that respect for the individual which is the lifeblood of the law,’ ” id., at 834, 95 S.Ct. at 2541.3
To implement the right of selfrepresen-tation the Supreme Court imposed upon a trial court certain duties which, as now seen, are no more than what is expressly stated in or necessarily implied from the following paragraph:
“When an accused manages his own defense, he relinquishes, as a purely factual matter, many of the traditional benefits associated with the right to counsel. For this reason, in order to represent himself, the accused must ‘knowingly and intelligently’ forgo those relinquished *954benefits. Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. [458], at 464-465 [58 S.Ct. 1019 at 1023, 82 L.Ed. 1461], Cf. Von Moltke v. Gillies, 332 U.S. 708, 723-724, [68 S.Ct. 316, 323, 92 L.Ed. 309] (plurality opinion of Black, J.). Although a defendant need not himself have the skill and experience of a lawyer in order competently and intelligently to choose self-representation, he should be made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of self-representation, so that the record will establish that ‘he knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes open.’ Adams v. United States ex rel. McCann, 317 U.S. [269] at 279 [63 S.Ct. 236 at 242, 87 L.Ed. 268].”
Id., at 835, 95 S.Ct. at 2541.4
The original opinion in the case at bar alludes to prior decisions of the Court and reiterates “requisites” that the State stoutly complains are really “suggestions” which “are not an integral part of the Far-etta rule.” (Emphasis by the State.) We agree that Faretta does not mandate, in the words of the original opinion in this cause, an “inquiry concerning appellant’s age, education, background, or previous mental health history” in every instance where an accused expresses a desire to represent himself, for the record may otherwise be sufficient for the Court to make “an assessment of his knowing exercise of the right to defend himself,” id., at 836, 95 S.Ct. at 2541.5 And in the case at bar we find that assessment is justified.
At the outset we note that the indictment alleged and the State was to prove that appellant had been twice convicted of felony offenses of burglary within six years immediately preceding the instant burglary offense. Thus, like Faretta, appellant had some familiarity with the criminal justice system. Similarly, he had made clear well before trial that he desired to represent himself, and that the judge who heard the matter had determined to honor his position was known to the trial judge.6 Still, the trial judge reprised the matter of self representation just before beginning one trial of this case October 26, 1977. In the margin we set out pertinent portions of his inquiry — reminiscent of the germane portions of colloquys in Faretta, supra, U.S. at 807-810, nn. 2 and 3, 95 S.Ct. at 2527-2529, nn. 2 and 3 — that brought the court again to respect the choice of appellant to defend himself.7
That done, a jury was selected, according to an entry by the court reporter, by Thomas Mulvaney, an assistant district attorney, and appellant, himself. Before the jury *955was seated in the box, out of stated abundance of caution the trial court arraigned appellant, and — still outside the presence of the jury — presented to appellant for execution “if it meets your approval” the written “waiver of attorney” alluded to in the original opinion of the Court.8 After appellant executed the waiver, the jurors were seated, sworn, empanelled and instructed generally as to their duties. The court announced both sides were having witness problems, and the jury was excused until the next morning.
October 27 the State moved in writing for a continuance on account of unavailability of a material witness and, without objection, a mistrial was declared and the case reset for trial November 7. In advance of that day appellant prepared a proper request for issuance of subpoenas for four witnesses. When the trial was again continued, appellant made written protest that he had not been present to object to the continuance; apparently as a consequence the record shows that November 14 appellant moved for a continuance, and that was granted. Trial commenced November 28.9
Given these facts and circumstances — from initial demand for selfrepresenta*956tion, through the confirmed admonishment by Judge Gist, the subsequent inquiry conducted by Judge Giblin, to his participation in the first aborted trial—as to the final completed trial, we find the record establishes that appellant knew what he was doing and his choice was made with eyes open. Faretta, supra, U.S. at 835-836, 95 S.Ct. at 2541.
Therefore, the State’s motion for rehearing is granted, and we proceed to consider and decide the remaining grounds of error presented by appellant.
Ground of error number one asserts that the trial court erred in not submitting a charge on circumstantial evidence. However, appellant does not summarize the evidence to inform us of the circumstantially evidentiary nature of the facts of the matter, and, pointing to his confession to committing the offense, the State insists its case does not depend solely on such character of evidence. Be that as it may, appellant concedes that he did not object to the charge on that account nor request an instruction on circumstantial evidence. Thus, the alleged error has not been preserved for review, as required by Articles 36.14 or 36.15, V.A.C.C.P., and may not be reviewed on appeal unless it appears that his rights were injured or he did not have a fair and impartial trial. Article 36.19, V.A.C.C.P.; Mills v. State, 508 S.W.2d 823, 825-826 (Tex.Cr.App.1974); see Boles v. State, 598 S.W.2d 274, 278 (Tex.Cr.App.1980). Though it may be that failure to protect the record flowed from deficiencies in the selfrepre-sentation that appellant demanded be accorded him, such is one of the risks he assumed.10 Hawkins v. State, 613 S.W.2d 720, 72811 (Tex.Cr.App.1981); Trevino v. State, 555 S.W.2d 750, 75112 (Tex.Cr.App.1977).
The second ground of error complains that the prosecuting attorney imper-missibly commented on failure of appellant to testify. The argument now called to our attention is not, at first blush, a sure implication of a failure to testify. But, alas, we may not further analyze it for, again, the claimed error was not preserved by objection voiced at the time the comments were made. There is nothing to review. Valore v. State, 545 S.W.2d 477, 481 (Tex.Cr.App.1977).
The record with respect to the third ground of error, claiming that an account of committing an extraneous offense within appellant’s confession to the instant offense should have been excluded by the trial court, is in worse shape than the first two grounds. In a hearing outside the presence of the jury the State authenticated appellant’s full confession, but offered an abridged version which omitted appellant’s account of the extraneous offense. Appellant, however, insisted that the complete, unabridged confession be admitted in evidence. Of course, he cannot now characterize as error that which was consented to or invited by him, 5 Tex.Jur.2d 611, § 409, nor complain of material in evidence brought out by him while acting as his own attorney, Gilley v. State, 114 Tex.Cr.R. 548, 26 S.W.2d 1070 (1930).
Following Faretta, the Court has cautioned, “When an accused elects to rep*957resent himself he cannot complain that the quality of his own defense amounted to a denial of effective assistance of counsel,” Williams v. State, 549 S.W.2d 183, 189 (Tex.Cr.App.1977). Our disposition of grounds of error one, two and three are the wounds an accused may have to suffer on appeal for exercising his constitutional right to defend himself at trial, and it is little consolation to have it pointed out that they were selfin-flicted.
The State’s motion for rehearing is granted and the judgment of conviction is affirmed.
. This cause was originally submitted to a panel of the Court; however before an opinion was delivered two members of the panel were no longer judges on the Court. Accordingly, a proposed opinion was circulated to all judges. Thus initial consideration of the principal contention on appeal was undertaken without benefit of a prior panel opinion and a motion for leave to file a motion for rehearing directed to its findings, conclusions and holdings. The motion for leave to file by the State Prosecuting Attorney must be viewed in this light.
. The first ground, couched by us more in terms of Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975), asserts that the record affirmatively reflects that appellant did knowingly and intelligently forgo traditional benefits associated with the right to counsel after having been made aware of the dangers and disadvantages of selfrepresentation. The second is that the original opinion is “essentially grounded on a requirement of colloquies and admonishments which are foreign to the ruling case” of Faretta, supra.
.All emphasis is added unless otherwise indicated.
. Thus, we are unable to agree with the third ground of error on rehearing that there should be applied “the well recognized rule that the actions of a trial court are presumed to be valid.” Clearly, Supreme Court insistence that the “record will establish” that one who would represent himself “knows what he is doing and his choice is made with eyes open” charges the trial court with the responsibility of making that record.
. It must be remembered that as well as finding Faretta had not made an intelligent and knowing waiver of right to assistance of counsel, the trial court mixed that finding with a ruling that he had no constitutional right to conduct his own defense. Thus, the question before the Supreme Court was “whether a defendant in a state criminal trial has a constitutional right to proceed without counsel when he voluntarily and intelligently elects to do so,” 422 U.S. at 807, 95 S.Ct. at 2527. The thrust of the answer given by the Supreme Court is that the right of selfrepresentation does exist and must be honored when benefits of assistance of counsel are understanding^ relinquished with an informed awareness of dangers and disadvantages of self-representation. The Faretta opinion simply cannot reasonably be read to require that a trial judge spread upon the record all such information and data about an accused that might conceivably impugn his decision to represent himself; rather, its approach is to provide awareness of problems in the undertaking so that the decision is not lightly made.
. Among the papers in the cause is an Indigen-cy Report Form dated October 5, 1977, in which the Pre-Trial Information Program Director reported that appellant “indicated that Judge Gist had allowed him to represent himself and he advised that under no conditions will he want a court appointed attorney...” An October 17 notice of resetting has a notation to the same effect.
. “THE COURT: * * *
Let the record reflect that the defendant is present before the Court along with Mr. Don Duesler who the Court has appointed as ami-cus curiae for the benefit of Mr. Martin.
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*955Mr. Martin, whenever you appeared before Judge Gist since I wasn’t there I’m going to assume some things and if I am wrong, correct me.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir.
THE COURT: Whenever you appeared you made it known that you would like to represent yourself. I think at that time he inquired of you and also cautioned you and also admonished you that if you represented yourself the Court would hold you to the same standards that I would hold Mr. Mulva-ney over here who is an attorney.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir.
THE COURT: That I won’t or he would not give you any special benefit due to the fact that you are not an attorney. He explained that to you.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir, he did.
THE COURT: Okay. And after explaining to you and advising you of the advantages and also the disadvantages and personally I can’t think of many advantages except possibly the psychological effect of you before a jury without a lawyer, but I can think of many disadvantages and one is that you are not skilled in the Rules of Evidence and not skilled in the Rules of Procedure and the Court is going to hold you to the same standard as I would anyone else.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir.
THE COURT: That’s the biggest disadvantage to you.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir.
THE COURT: At this time I want to inquire as to whether or not you at this time still wish to represent yourself.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir, I do.
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THE COURT: You realize, also, Mr. Martin, that Mr. Duesler will be sitting with you purely for advice only.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir.
THE COURT: He cannot under our law in Texas participate in the trial because I am going to allow you and I am satisfied that you are knowingly and intentionally making the waiver of your right to be represented by an attorney. He is there for you to ask advice of but he cannot participate.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir.
THE COURT: In other words, you will be the one that has to make any objections and you will be the one that has to handle the case.
If you turn to him and ask for advice he will give you some. If you don’t ask him he will not be able to give you any advice.
DEFENDANT: Yes, sir.
THE COURT: Any questions.
DEFENDANT: None at all, sir.
THE COURT: All right. Let the record reflect that the Court is satisfied that Mr. Martin is knowingly and intentionally waiving his right to be represented by an attorney. I will allow him to represent himself and appoint Mr. Don Duesler, an attorney, as Amicus Curiae.”
. Inter alia the verified waiver contains a “demand that I be allowed to represent myself’ and a statement that appellant does “possess the proper educational, mental, and physical capabilities to represent myself in this case.” This waiver alone is not such that will constitute the kind of record contemplated by the Supreme Court in Faretta, see note 4 ante and accompanying excerpt in the text, but coming as it does after appellant had already been representing himself the waiver has the value of confirmation.
. When the cause came on for trial November 28, 1977, appellant announced ready, and the court explained to the panel of venire-persons before voir dire commenced that appellant “has elected under our law to represent himself,” and he will be “held to the same standards as I will hold Mr. Mulvaney.” Prosecutor Mulva-ney elaborated on that posture of things, and in his time appellant told the jury, “I don’t want *956you to feel sorry for me cause I am representing myself. I feel that I am capable of representing myself,” pointing out that, if not, “I have a more than willing attorney to assist me if I need it.”
.Faretta, supra, at n. 46, makes clear that “whatever else may or may not be open to him on appeal, a defendant who elects to represent himself cannot thereafter complain that the quality of his own defense amounted to a denial of ‘effective assistance of counsel’.”
. “[T]hough not an attorney an accused is expected to conduct himself like one to the extent of his ability to do so.”
. We have found, in effect, that appellant was made “fully aware that he will be on his own in a complex area where experience and professional training are greatly to be desired.”