State v. Worley

In the record on appeal, defendant sets. forth two assignments of error: (1) “The action of the State and Court in refusing to accept defendant’s plea to guilty of misdemeanor escape”; and (2) “(t)he action of the Court in entering and signing the judgment of record.”

In a criminal prosecution, if the State elects to accept the defendant’s plea of nolo contendere, the court’s authority to pronounce judgment in that particular case is the same as if there had been conviction by verdict or plea of guilty. S. v. Stone, 245 N.C. 42, 44, 95 S.E. 2d 77, 79, and cases cited; S. v. Stevens, 252 N.C.…