Golden v. Balkcom

Hawkins, Justice.

The plaintiff in error, William Golden, seeks review of a judgment of the City Court of Reidsville refusing to discharge him on a writ of habeas corpus from the custody *16of the respondent warden, defendant in error, under sentence, from Chatham Superior Court, of death by electrocution for the offense of murder. The petition makes only one contention, and that is that the judge presiding at the murder trial in Chatham Superior Court, which resulted in the conviction of Golden, erroneously refused to permit him to enter a plea of guilty, and forthwith impose sentence, as…