State v. Williams

In this appeal from his conviction following his plea of guilty to the offense of forgery of an instrument having a face value of $300 or more, the defendant assigns as a single error the failure of the trial court to inform him, prior to taking the plea, of the maximum and minimum penalties possible upon conviction. The State concedes that the record does not reflect that the defendant was so informed.

In State v. Turner, 186 Neb. 424, 425-26, 183 N.W.2d 763, 765 (1971), we stated: “Before accepting a guilty plea a judge is *416expected to sufficiently examine the defendant to determine whether…