Clark v. State

The appellant, Harvey Clark, is serving a seventeen year sentence for the crime of manslaughter, imposed on December 8, 1970, in Chesterfield County. He was indicted for having murdered one Brenda Price with a .22 caliber pistol on July 16, 1970. At his trial, after the completion of the State’s case, he, on the advice of his counsel, withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty to the crime of manslaughter. He was represented by Frank Cain, Esq. of the Marlboro Bar, who was retained by the appellant’s father, in his behalf, in early September 1970.

Thereafter, on September 9,…