People v. King

By the Court,

Sanderson, C. J.

I. The defendant was indicted for the crime of grand larceny. A demurrer was interposed to the indictment which was overruled by the Court. Thereafter, when called upon to plead to the indictment the defendant, acting under the advice of his counsel, declined to do so, and refused to put in any plea whatever. Thereupon the Court, of its own motion, ordered the Clerk to enter a plea of not guilty, to which counsel for the defendant objected and demanded that the Court should proceed in the manner designated in the two hundred and ninety-sixth section of the…