Reddish v. State

(specially concurring).

At first blush it appears that this court’s opinion in Williams v. State, 245 So.2d 267 (Fla.App. 1st 1971), requires remand for an evidentiary hearing where the record, such as in the instant case, does not disclose inquiry by the trial judge as to the voluntariness of a defendant’s plea of guilty. Williams is not applicable. The pleas of guilty here considered were entered by defendant’s privately retained counsel on November 23, 1964, some five years prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969),…