Ramsey v. State

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following the denial of his motion to withdraw his guilty plea for theft by receiving stolen property, 1 Stanley Ramsey appeals, contending that the trial court had an insufficient factual basis for accepting such plea, including evidence of venue, thereby violating the requirements of Uniform Superior Court Rule (USCR) 33.9. 2 For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

The standard of review in cases such as this is well established. After sentence is pronounced, withdrawal of a guilty plea is allowed only to correct a manifest injustice, and the trial court’s…