Massey v. State

Quillian, Justice.

The first assignment of error contained in the bill of exceptions is .to the refusal of the trial judge to accept the defendant’s plea of guilty and sentence him to life imprisonment, under the provisions of Ga. L. 1956, p. 737 (Code Ann. § 27-2528), on the grounds that: “under a proper construction of said statute, it was mandatory upon the court to accept said plea of guilty and to sentence the defendant accordingly, the discretion vested in the court by said Act relating not as to whether said plea of guilty Shall be accepted and sentence imposed, but rather as to whether…