2005 Rhode Island Code - § 30-13-48 — Entering of not-guilty plea by court.

    If an accused arraigned before a court-martial makes an irregular pleading, or after a plea of guilty sets up matters inconsistent with the plea, or if it appears that the accused has entered the plea of guilty improvidently or through lack of understanding of its meaning and effect, or if the accused fails or refuses to plead, a plea of not guilty shall be entered in the record, and the court shall proceed as though he or she had pleaded not guilty.