People v. Chase

Defendant appeals of right from his plea of guilty to the offense of felonious assault, MCLA 750.82; MSA 28.277.

The first issue raised concerns the factual basis of the plea. When the trial judge examined the defendant at the time of taking the plea, he elicited from the defendant his sorry tale of a family quarrel which led to the calling of the police to whom the defendant exhibited a shotgun “so they’d see the shotgun and wouldn’t come in the house”. The principle of law here involved is similar to that in People v Counts, 318 Mich 45, 54 (1947). The Supreme Court held:

“Defendant’s claim…