Ingram v. Prescott

By means of a petition for habeas corpus granted by a Justice of this Court and made returnable before the Court en banc, petitioner seeks relief from a sentence of a seven years imprisonment imposed upon him by the Circuit Court of Walton County upon an adjudication of his guilt of the felony of arson. The record before us shows that the sentence was pronounced January 9th, 1933, pursuant to a plea of guilty that had been entered by the defendant on September 17th, A. D. 1930, but sentence suspended thereafter from term to term pending the continued good behavior of the defendant. The…