Ex Parte Jenkins

CARR, Presiding Judge.

In the court below James Earl Jenkins, Jr., was indicted for the offense of robbery.

The jurisdiction of our court is invoked by a petition for writ of error.

According to the allegations of the petition, when the cause came for trial in the circuit court, the defendant entered a plea of guilty as charged in the indictment. Without the intervention of a jury the trial judge adjudged the accused guilty of robbery and imposed a sentence of fifteen years in the state penitentiary.

We granted the writ because of this error of law and directed the Clerk of the Circuit Court of…