Davis v. State

Murphy, C. J., and Eldridge, J., concur in the judgment and Murphy, C. J., filed a concurring opinion in which Eldridge, J., concurs at page 119 infra.

Generally speaking, this case involves the question of what information the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution requires state trial courts to obtain from defendants who plead guilty to criminal charges in order to ensure that the record reflects that they do so voluntarily and intelligently. More precisely, we are faced here with the issue of whether that provision of the Constitution, with special…