State v. Roberts

— On the evening of December 14, 1924, at about 10:30 o’clock, appellant was arrested by officers of Tacoma, Pierce county. On December 15, 1924, an information was filed against appellant charging him with the crime of statutory rape, alleged to have been committed upon an unmarried female under the age of consent, on December 14, 1924.

On December 23, 1924, appellant was taken before one of the judges of the superior court of Pierce county where he pleaded guilty; the judgment reciting that, upon being brought to the bar of the court and informed of the nature of the information filed…