State v. Sanders

ZINTER, Justice.

[¶ 1.] Maurice Sanders pleaded guilty to forgery and engaged in a colloquy with the circuit court regarding the factual basis for the plea. The court accepted the plea and entered a judgment of conviction and sentence. Sanders appeals. He claims that the circuit court did not have subject matter jurisdiction because Sanders’s factual basis did not affirmatively establish that the offense occurred in South Dakota. . We affirm because an inadequate factual basis does not deprive a circuit- court of its subject matter jurisdiction.

[¶2.] Sanders was indicted on one count of…