Archer v. Clark

Duckworth, Presiding Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the Code, § 27-1404, after requiring that one charged with a crime be arraigned, it is said that “he shall be required to answer whether he is guilty or not guilty of the offense charged in the indictment, which answer or plea shall be made orally by the prisoner or his counsel. If he shall pléad ‘guilty,’ such plea shall be immediately recorded on the minutes of the court by the clerk, together with the arraignment.” Here is express législative recognition of the authority of an attorney at law to speak for his client in…