Holston v. State

Townsend, Presiding Judge.

1. After the pronouncement of the sentence in a criminal case, the defendant may no- longer withdraw his plea of guilty as a matter of right, but this is a matter within the sound legal discretion of the trial- court. Code § 27-1404; Sanders v. State, 18 Ga. App. 786 (90 S. E. 728).

2. “In exercising this discretion, the trial judge settles all conflicts in evidence and is the exclusive arbiter of the facts. He has no discretion in reference to a finding of law. The exercise of a sound, legal discretion presupposes an application of settled rules of law to the facts…