State v. Downs

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wertz, J.:

This is an appeal in a criminal case by defendant from an order of the trial court overruling his motion to withdraw his plea of guilty and to vacate the judgment entered thereon.

We are not concerned with the circumstances out of which arose the prosecution of the defendant. The record in the trial court, insofar as pertinent, may be briefly stated. On January 17, 1958, defendant, Paul Downs, a practicing lawyer of some years’ experi ence, appeared in the district court for arraignment upon an information charging him with an offense under G.…