Dawson v. State

PRICE, Judge.

The indictment in this case charged appellant with manufacturing whiskey and possessing a still.

Defendant plead guilty to the charge contained in the indictment, and the court pronounced judgment and sentence. The sentence being one year and one day in the penitentiary.

Three days later defendant, by his counsel, filed a motion praying that “the court will grant him leave and permission to withdraw his plea of guilty entered in this cause, and will further allow and permit him to enter a plea of not guilty thereto.”

The basis of the motion was that defendant was without counsel at…