People v. Piffer

Defendant, Benny Dean Piffer, was convicted upon his plea of guilty of the crime of uttering and publishing. MCLA 750.249; MSA 28.446. He was sentenced to Jackson State Prison for a term of 4 to 14 years. Defendant now seeks to withdraw his guilty plea upon the basis that it was procured without satisfying the requirements of GCR 1963, 785.3(2) and MCLA 768.35; MSA 28.1058.

Defendant’s first allegation is that the mandate of GCR 1963, 785.3(2) requiring "the court [to] inform the accused * * * of the consequence of his plea” was ignored by the trial judge’s failure to advise him of his right…