Pruitt v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— In the light of appellant’s motion for rehearing we have again gone over this record, and have examined the authorities cited, and others, bearing upon the questions involved. As stated in our opinion, the judgment entered in the trial court recited that appellant had pleaded not guilty upon his trial. The same fact is recited in the charge of the court to the jury. Such being the case, and the purpose of an arraignment being to show the identity of the accused, and that he entered his plea to the indictment, under the authority of Morris v. State,…