State v. Caldwell

Defendant’s plea of guilty of assault with a deadly weapon upon Hazel Bradley, which is a lesser degree of the felonious assault charged in the indictment, and his plea of guilty to the charge in the information of carrying a concealed weapon, to wit, a pistol, are formal confessions of guilt by him before the Buncombe County Superior Court in which he was arraigned on these charges to which he pleaded guilty. S. v. Crandall, 225 N.C. 148, 33 S.E. 2d 861; S. v. Robinson, 224 N.C. 412, 30 S.E. 2d 320.

Defendant assigns as error that the court failed of its own motion to set aside his plea of…