Merriweather v. State

The plea of guilty was given and accepted on May 19, 1981, prior to the effective date in December, 1981, of the rule announced in German v. State (1981), Ind., 428 N.E.2d 284 requiring strict compliance by the trial courts of the State with the provisions of the guilty plea statute then existing, which has been recently overruled in White v. State (1986), Ind., 497 N.E.2d 893. It should therefore be governed by the totality of the circumstances standard set forth in Neeley v. State (1978), 269 Ind. 588, 382 N.BE.2d 714. Cf. Sherwood v. State (1985), Ind., 485 N.E.2d 97. However, the majority…