State v. Marshall

The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Wayne county, at the September term, 1908, charged Avith an asault with intent to commit murder in the first degree upon the person of one Earl Boyce on a day in August of the same year. The case was continued from term to term until the April term, 1910, when the defendant was arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty. A jury was impaneled to try the issue, and the trial had proceeded to the extent of the examination of one witness for the State, when the defendant moved the court for permission to withdraw his plea of not guilty, and *232to file…