State v. Schmid

UDALL, Justice:

This is an appeal from a judgment of guilt and imposition of sentence following defendant’s entry of a plea of guilty to second-degree murder.

The facts of this case disclose that defendant was informed against on December 15, 1965, being charged with the May 31, 1964 murder of one Norma Alleen Rowe. After the jury had been empanelled and two prosecution witnesses, including defendant’s accomplice — Mary French, had testified for the state, defendant entered a plea of guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder. The court, having ascertained that this plea was…