Case Name: STATE v. H. M. ANDERSON
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1927-12-31
Citations: 173 Minn. 293
Docket Number: No. 26,380
Parties: STATE v. H. M. ANDERSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 173
Pages: 293–293

Head Matter:
STATE v. H. M. ANDERSON.
December 31, 1927.
No. 26,380.
A. R. English and Hall & Gislason, for appellant.
Clifford L. Hilton, Attorney General, James E. Markham, Deputy Attorney General, and William R. Mitchell, County Attorney, for the state.
Reported in 217 N. W. 351.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Appeal from a judgment.- Defendant was convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor. On cross-examination he was required to testify over proper objection that he had first plead guilty to the accusation made in the information upon which he was on trial and that he thereafter withdrew such plea by leave of the court. This was error. Under such circumstances the former plea is held for naught. Kercheval v. U. S. 274 U. S. 220, 47 S. Ct. 582, 71 L. ed. 1009. A new trial is granted.
Reversed.