Dawson v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

This appellant entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with forgery and was sentenced to a year and a day in the penitentiary.

Thereafter he filed a petition captioned a motion for a new trial in which he sought to vacate the judgment, with leave to withdraw the guilty plea, and prayed that he be granted a trial.

It is alleged that the crime for which accused has been convicted was committed by another person who has since signed a confession of guilt; that this is newly discovered evidence which was not available to petitioner and that he could not by the…