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PEOPLE v. RUFUS WILLIAMS

Docket No. 5,599.

23 Mich. App. 459 (1970)

179 N.W.2d 48

PEOPLE v. RUFUS WILLIAMS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Leave to appeal granted July 16, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Robert F. Leonard, Prosecuting Attorney, and Donald A. Kuebler, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

George L. Baer, for defendant on appeal.

Before: LEVIN, P.J., and T.M. BURNS and DANHOF, JJ.

LEVIN, J.

The defendant, Rufus Williams, pled guilty to second-degree murder. The plea was accepted and on October 19, 1959 he was sentenced to life in prison.

The questions presented concern the sufficiency of the judge's interrogation of Williams before his plea of guilty was accepted.

This appeal follows the trial court's denial of Williams' petition, filed June 13, 1966, to withdraw his guilty plea. In his petition Williams alleged that he was...

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