People v. De Flumer

The defendant, at the time of the commission of the crime of which he was convicted, was a youth just short of 15 years. Emphasis upon this fact tends to divert, if not obliterate, the factors which led to his indictment for murder in the first degree and his eventual plea of guilty to a lesser degree of homicide. The circumstances surrounding such plea were- fully explored in the coram nobis hearing and sympathetically considered, from the totality of which the only rational conclusion is that the confession was voluntary and that the plea of guilty to murder in the second degree was offered…