People v. Paul

This case is submitted on the people’s motions to dismiss and to affirm. Donald M. Paul was convicted, on plea of guilty, of the crime of breaking and entering an occupied dwelling with intent to commit a rape therein in violation of CL 1948, § 750.110, as amended by PA 1964, No 133 (Stat Ann 1968 Cum Supp §28.305), and on July 13, 1967, he was sentenced to 7 to 15 years in prison.

The case presents 2 questions, first, whether the guilty plea was made freely, understandingly, and voluntarily by defendant. * Second, whether the disclosure by defendant during the taking of the plea that he had…