Corlise v. State of Florida

In this case the defendant, a boy fourteen years of age, who was illiterate and unable to speak or thoroughly understand the English language, entered a plea of guilty to larceny of an automobile and was sentenced to the Florida State Industrial School for Boys at Marianna, Florida, for the remainder of his minority, or until he should become twenty-one years of age.

In the case of Stringfellow v. Coons et al., 57 Fla. 158, 49 Sou. 1019; 131 Am. St. Rep. 1089, and in Cosmopolitan Fire Insurance Company v. Putnal, 60 Fla. 41, 53 Sou. 444, it was held: the refusal of a trial court to allow pleas…