People v. Manriquez

The defendant was charged with the crime of murder. After the entry of a plea of “guilty” the court determined the degree of the crime as murder in the first degree, and, on July 22, 1921, imposed the death penalty. Thereafter the defendant interposed a motion to set aside the judgment and for leave to withdraw the plea of guilty and to substitute a plea of not guilty instead. The motion was denied on September 28, 1921. There appears in the clerk’s transcript of the proceedings in the court below what purports to be a notice of appeal, to this court, from the judgment of conviction, “and…