People v. Trice

Defendants appeal from their convictions upon pleas of guilty to the offense of murder in the second degree. MCLA § 750.317 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.549).

Together with a third man, they were originally charged with first-degree murder arising out of the killing of a grocer during the course of a robbery. The three defendants, each represented by his own counsel, entered pleas of guilty in a single proceeding. Defendants Trice and Williams now claim that the trial court erred under GrCR 1963, 785.3(2), in jointly interrogating the three codefendants upon their pleas. The people have submitted…