CARPENTER v. STATE

No. 494.

157 S.E.2d 615 (1967)

272 N.C. 84

Dewitt CARPENTER v. STATE of North Carolina.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 22, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton, Asst. Atty. Gen., A. H. McDaniel and Eugene A. Smith, Trial Atty., Raleigh, for the State.

Charles P. Brown, Albemarle, for petitioner appellant.


PER CURIAM.

It is apparent that the petitioner, then a 17 year old boy with a sixth grade education, was called upon to plead to an indictment charging him with a capital offense and that a plea of guilty to second degree burglary was entered on his behalf by an able attorney who had talked with the petitioner for only five minutes and for the sole purpose of explaining to him, at the request of the presiding judge, the difference between the various pleas which might...

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