Gazda v. State

REED, Judge.

The appellant, defendant below, John Leon Gazda, was charged by an information filed in the Criminal Court of Record for Palm Beach County, Florida, with robbery allegedly committed on 2 November 1963. On 28 July 1964 Mr. Gazda appeared before the court with privately retained counsel and pled guilty to the lesser included offense of grand larceny. The plea of guilty was accepted by the trial court which entered an order as follows:

“It is the Order of the Court that Adjudication and Sentence be withheld and a Pre-Sentence Investigation be Ordered. Further Ordered that the…