Clay v. State

Upon her plea of “guilty” of the offence of embezzlement of the sum of $650.00, in money charged in an information filed against her in the Criminal Court of Record for Duval County, the defendant below was sentenced to fine or imprisonment in the county jail, and seeks review of this judgment by the writ of error.

The defendant below, before sentence imposed, moved the Court to set aside her plea of “guilty” and to permit her to interpose the plea of “not guilty” in its stead, which motion asserted that the defendant to be ready at any time, immediately or hereafter to stand trial on said…