State v. Murray

BERNSTEIN, Vice Chief Justice.

Defendant appeals from a conviction rendered in the Superior Court of Cochise County for the illegal possession of marijuana in violation of A.R.S. § 36-1002.05. The defendant pled guilty to the charge in the lower court and now seeks to have his plea set aside and the subsequent conviction and sentence vacated.

On December 31, 1962, after the defendant had been charged with the above crime, but prior to the time he entered a plea of guilty to that charge, the defendant gave a statement to the deputy county attorney of Cochise County. This statement, taken for the…