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If prisoner refuse to plead, court may order plea of not guilty to be entered.
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8. If any person, being arraigned upon or charged with any indictment or information for treason, felony, piracy, or misdemeanor shall stand mute of malice, or will not answer directly to the indictment or information, in every such case it shall be lawful for the court, if it shall so think fit, to order the proper officer to enter a plea of not guilty on behalf of such person; and the plea so entered shall have the same force and effect as if such person had actually pleaded the same.
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