PEOPLE v. SHAFFER

Docket No. 1,212.

4 Mich. App. 192 (1966)

144 N.W.2d 680

PEOPLE v. SHAFFER.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided September 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, James K. Miller, Prosecuting Attorney, Norman K. Kravitz, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Smith & Haughey (L. Roland Roegge, of counsel), for defendant.


BURNS, P.J.

The appellant, who was 18 years of age, married and a member of the armed forces (although absent without leave at the time) entered a plea of guilty to the charge of armed robbery.1

The appellant claims that a youth of the age of 18 years is not capable of waiving his right to counsel, and that police officers told him if he would plead guilty the judge would be lenient and probably place him on probation.

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