Mathis v. Scott

Atkinson, Justice.

Upon the habeas corpus hearing the plaintiff in error insisted that he was not guilty of the crime for which he was sentenced in the city court of Waynesboro. But the evidence disclosed that he entered a plea of guilty. A confession of the offense by a plea of guilty has the same effect as if he had been tried and found guilty by the verdict of a jury. Jackson v. Lowry, 171 Ga. 349 (155 S. E. 466). On the trial of a habeas corpus proceeding, where it is shown that the detention of the person whose liberty was restrained was by authority of a judgment of the city court…