State v. Martin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder of the first degree without recommendation as to pun*438ishment, and by a writ of error seeks to reverse that judgment.

The first point argued in support of this writ is the refusal of the trial court to accept a plea of non vult tendered by the defendant, which he claims is his right under section 107 of the Crimes act, amended in 1917 (Pamph. L., p. 801). Prior to the amendment of 1917, section 107 prohibited the acceptance of a plea of guilty on an indictment for murder, with the proviso that…