State v. Garrett

It has been announced so often that if a defendant in a criminal case enter a plea of guilty it is within the discretion of the court whether it will allow the plea to be withdrawn and a plea of not guilty to be entered that the proposition does not need reiteration. Here the defendant was represented by able counsel of well-known standing at the bar from the commencement of the proceeding. Several months elapsed before arraignment. No inducement was offered or pressure brought to bear upon him from any source respecting his pleading guilty. He does not claim to be deficient in understanding…