Adams v. State, 124
Decision Date | 16 January 1961 |
Docket Number | No. 124,124 |
Citation | 167 A.2d 94,224 Md. 141 |
Parties | Wilmer L. ADAMS v. STATE of Maryland. |
Court | Maryland Court of Appeals |
Anthony J. Nolan, Baltimore, for appellant.
Mary Arabian, Asst. Atty. Gen. (C. Ferdinand Sybert, Atty. Gen., Saul A. Harris, State's Atty., Norman Polski, James W. McAllister, Asst. State's Attys. of Baltimore City, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee.
Before BRUNE, C. J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.
Appellant entered a plea of guilty generally to a three count indictment charging larceny of an automobile, receiving stolen goods, and larceny of use of the automobile. He urges that the court erred in accepting the plea of guilty generally and in sentencing him for a period greater than the maximum statutory sentence for larceny of use.
We find no error. Jones v. State, 221 Md. 141, 144, 156 A.2d 421, 422. The record before us does not shake the presumption, rather it buttresses it. The appellant had pleaded not guilty when arraigned. At the trial his attorney explained that after consultation with him the accused wished to change his plea to 'guilty generally.' The clerk echoed 'Plea of guilty generally.' The assistant State's attorney then recited the facts of the case which had been stipulated. A signed confession of appellant (which revealed his prior criminal record) was read. Appellant took the stand, apparently in an effort to mitigate the sentence, and after this, sentence was pronounced. At no point during or after the trial did appellant object or complain that the trial court had erred in accepting a plea of guilty generally, or even suggest that the judge had been derelict in any duty owed him.
Appellant had been convicted previously at least six times for larceny of an automobile. It is scarcely conceivable he was not fully aware of the elements of the...
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