Geer v. State

The defendant was indicted in 1936 for murder, and was convicted of that offense at the May term, 1937, of the trial court. In November, 1937, a judgment refusing a new trial was reversed by the Supreme Court. Geer v. State, 184 Ga. 805 (193 S. E. 776). When the case was called for trial at the May term, 1937, the defendant, without filing any demurrer to the indictment, entered a formal plea of not guilty, and waived arraignment. When the case came on for a second trial at the December term, 1937, the defendant moved the court to allow him to withdraw his plea of not guilty and his waiver of…