State v. Small

ARCHIBALD, Justice.

On February 18, 1977, Edward Arnold Small, III, entered a guilty plea in the Superior Court of Penobscot County to an information charging a violation of what was then 17-A M.R.S.A. § 204. 1 The information charged:

“That on or about the 17th day of July, 1976, in the County of Penobscot, State of Maine, EDWARD ARNOLD SMALL III did recklessly cause the death of another human being, namely, Wayde M. Turner, said act being committed with the use of a dangerous weapon, to wit, a steel pipe.”

The Justice of the Superior Court complied carefully with Rule 11, M.R.Crim.P., before…