DAWSON v. STATE

8 Div. 157.

215 So.2d 459 (1968)

Dewitt DAWSON v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied October 8, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jas. H. Tompkins, Tuscumbia, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Robt. F. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PRICE, Presiding Judge.

This appellant entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with forgery and was sentenced to a year and a day in the penitentiary.

Thereafter he filed a petition captioned a motion for a new trial in which he sought to vacate the judgment, with leave to withdraw the guilty plea, and prayed that he be granted a trial.

It is alleged that the crime for which accused has been convicted was committed by another person...

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