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PEOPLE v. KENNY SMITH
    Appeal and Error — Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Withdrawal —Voluntariness.
    A request to withdraw a plea of guilty where it is claimed that the plea was involuntary because defendant was under the influence of drugs prescribed as medication by the jail physician cannot be made for the first time on appeal of the judgment of conviction.
    Reference for Points in Headnote
    5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 545.
    Appeal from Genesee, Stewart A. Newblatt, J.
    Submitted Division 2 November 10,1969, at Lansing.
    (Docket No. 6,746.)
    Decided November 26, 1969.
    Kenny Smith, also known as Kenny Terrell, was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of armed rohhery. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Robert F. Leonard, Prosecuting Attorney, Donald A. Kuebler, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, and Roger W. Kittendorf, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Lawrence G. Saxe, for defendant on appeal.
    Before: Levin, P. J., and T. M. Burns and Dan-hoe, JJ.
   Per Curiam.

On May 10, 1967, defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of armed robbery, and on June 20, 1967, he was sentenced. On both occasions he was represented by the same court-appointed lawyer who represents him on this appeal.

Defendant has asked this Court to allow him to withdraw his plea of guilty and to return this case to circuit court for a trial. He asserts that his plea was not voluntary because he was under the influence of drugs prescribed as medication by the jail physician on April 7,1967 and April 13,1967.

There is no support in the record for defendant’s claim that his plea was involuntary. Further, the alleged condition was never called to the attention of the trial judge by defendant or his counsel. Claims of this kind must be presented initially to the trial court by a motion to withdraw a guilty plea. They cannot be asserted for the first time on direct appeal of the judgment of conviction. After sentence has been imposed, withdrawal of a guilty plea rests within the sound discretion of the trial court, People v. Walls (1966), 3 Mich App 279.

Affirmed. 
      
       CLS 1961, § 750.529 (Stat Ann 1969 Cum Supp § 28.797).