CORRIGAN, J.
The action of the Court of Appeals in reversing the Common Pleas Court for accepting the defendant's plea of guilty can only have had its provenance in a spin-out of the benevolent, but cautionary, spirit of Douglas, J., when he opined, in Boykin v. Alabama (1969), 395, U. S. 238, 243:
"What is at stake for an accused facing death or imprisonment demands the utmost solicitude of which courts are capable in canvassing the matter with...
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