Case ID: mich-app_31/html/0288-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. WATKINS
    Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Vincent J. Brennan, J.
    Submitted Division 1 January 8, 1971, at Detroit.
    (Docket No. 9867.)
    Decided February 26, 1971.
    James Watkins was convicted, on Ms plea of guilty, of murder in the second degree. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frcmk J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cabalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, CMef, Appellate Department, and Arthur N. Bishop, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      M. Arthur Arduin and Kenneth A. Webb, for defendant on appeal.
    Before: R. B. Burns, P. J., and J. H. Gillis and Danhof, JJ.
   Per Curiam.

The defendant pled guilty to a charge of second-degree murder. MCLA § 750.317 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.549). He now appeals contending that the trial court did not inform him of the nature of the crime and that the record does not show that he had the intent to kill.

The record shows that the trial court explained the nature of the offense and that the defendant admitted that he intended to kill his victim. Therefore, a detailed discussion of the issues raised is unnecessary.

Affirmed.