State v. Casaras

HONORABLE GUY C. DERRY, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE ANGSTMAN, disqualified, delivered the opinion of the court.

From an order of the district court of Richland county overruling his motion to vacate a judgment against him, to withdraw a plea of guilty to the information on which that judgment was based, and to permit him to enter a plea of not guilty, defendant has prosecuted an appeal to this court.

The defendant, Pedor Casaras, was charged in an information filed on the 2d day of July, 1936, with the crime of murder in the first degree. On the 6th day of July following he…