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CARTER v. STATE

SC 355.

277 So.2d 896 (1973)

Lawrence CARTER v. The STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 17, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marlin M. Mooneyham, Montgomery, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and George White, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

FAULKNER, Justice.

Lawrence Ray Carter pled guilty to kidnapping James O. McGhee. The details of the crime do not appear of record. Carter was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. He appealed to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, and the appeal was thereafter transferred to this Court.

Our inquiry focuses upon whether the appellant's guilty plea was "intelligent and voluntary," as required by Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238

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