People v. Carl

Defendant appeals from an order denying defendant’s motion to withdraw his plea of guilty to murder in the second degree, 1 vacate sentence and grant a new trial.

The record indicates that at about 3:00 a.m. or 3:30 a.m., October 11, 1966, the defendant, who had been drinking heavily, entered a house in St. Louis, Michigan, through a kitchen window. Inside he killed Mrs. Emily Housel (whom he had never seen before this time) with a knife which he took from the kitchen sink. Defendant then went to the garage and drove the Housel automobile to Tallahassee, Florida. Later he was apprehended and…