State v. Waring

JACOBSON, Chief Judge, Division 1.

In this criminal appeal the convicted defendant, after a plea of guilty, questions whether the record adequately reflects that he understood the nature of the charge against him.

The defendant, James Ernest Waring, was originally brought to trial before a jury on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The trial before the jury had progressed for two days and after both the state and the defendant had presented their respective cases, during which the defendant took the stand and testified, but prior to the jury retiring to begin its deliberations, a plea…