State v. Armstrong

Ness, Justice:

This is an appeal from a conviction of assault of a high and aggravated nature. The salient facts involved here are as follows:

Appellant was tried upon an indictment of assault and battery with intent to kill. During the course of the trial, the jury was excused from the courtroom in anticipation of appellant’s tender of a plea of guilty to simple assault and battery. In accordance with the principles enunciated in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U. S. 238, 89 S. Ct. 1709, 23 L. Ed. (2d) 274 (1969), the trial judge in order to determine whether the plea was voluntarily made with an…