Guest v. District of Columbia

CAYTON, Judge.

After pleading guilty to a charge of vagrancy and receiving a sentence of ninety days plus a $250 fine, appellant moved to withdraw her plea of guilty. In the motion she charged that a police officer had induced her not to secure an attorney or bondsman and to plead guilty, and had promised if she did so her lengthy record would not be brought to the attention of the court and she would receive only a small fine.

At the hearing on the motion she testified she was arrested coming out of a restaurant and told she was being charged with investigation of robbery. At the station she…