Taylor v. State

On December 18, 1961, the appellant pleaded guilty, in the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County, to an information charging him with having escaped from the Maryland House of Correction “while undergoing lawful imprisonment” therein. Code (1957), Article 27, Section 139.

He raised three questions in his brief, but we find it necessary to consider the third only. He pleaded guilty, but the record fails to show, affirmatively, compliance by the trial court with Maryland Rule 723 b and c (now amended and designated as Rule 719 b 1 and d). Rule 723 b and c provided that “if the defendant appears…