Daniels v. State

The appellant was indicted on a charge of assault with intent to kill and murder, was arraigned, and pleaded guilty in self-defense. The court thereupon told her that she could not enter a plea of guilty in self-defense, but that she would have to plead gnilty or not guilty, and that, if she desired to plead self-defense, she would have to plead not guilty. The appellant then entered a plea of guilty. There was no effort, so far as the record shows, to clear up what she meant by guilty in self-defense. She was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary and sent to jail, and then, for the…