Ketchum v. State

HOBSON, Judge.

Error on the part of the trial judge is asserted on this appeal by defendant wherein the court denied the defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea of guilty.

The procedural steps in the case at bar occurred in the following sequence. An information was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Record in and for Polk County, Florida charging appellant with robbery. On May 14, 1962, a plea of “not guilty” was entered through appellant’s privately retained counsel.

Subsequently, however, before the defendant was ever brought to trial, he was arrested and convicted on a…