In Re Brahm

This is an application for stay of execution of judgment by which the defendant in the action in the lower court was sentenced to the term of imprisonment prescribed by law for the commission by her of the crime of arson. It appears that the judgment was rendered several weeks after a plea of guilty had been interposed by defendant and followed a denial by the court of defendant’s application for probation.

After sentence had been pronounced, defendant presented a motion by which she asked leave to withdraw her said plea of guilty and substitute in lieu thereof a plea of not guilty. At the…