People v. Martin

On March 2, 1925, an information was filed in the circuit court for the county of Kent charging defendant with the crime of murder. . The information did not specify the degree of the crime nor the manner, means or method of, or circumstances attending, its perpetration. Defendant entered a plea of guilty and thereupon an order was entered finding that defendant had pleaded guilty to the crime of murder in the first degree and sentencing him therefor to life imprisonment.

The record discloses no actual determination by the court of the degree of the crime, and it is conceded by plaintiff that…