Case ID: mich-app_24/html/0283-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. COFFEY
    Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Joseph E. Maher, J.
    Submitted Division 1 April 14, 1970, at Grand Rapids.
    (Docket No. 7,417.)
    Decided June 1, 1970.
    Leave to appeal denied July 28, 1970. 383 Mich 810.
    Billie Coffey was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of unlawful possession and driving away of a motor vehicle. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Arthur N. Rishop, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Arthur J. Tarnow (Defenders’ Office — Legal Aid and Defender Association of Detroit), for defendant on appeal.
    Before: T. M. Burns, P. J., and R. B. Burns and Fitzgerald, JJ.
   Per Curiam.

The people move to affirm defendant’s conviction, on plea of guilty, of unlawfully taking possession and driving away of a motor vehicle contrary to MCLA § 750.413 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.645). GCR 1963, 817.5 (3).

On appeal, defendant argues that the court failed to examine defendant sufficiently in order to establish the crime and defendant’s participation therein. See People v. Barrows (1959), 358 Mich 267, 272; People v. Perine (1967), 7 Mich App 292. Specifically, defendant argues that the examination failed to disclose that he actually drove the vehicle away.

Our review of the record satisfies us that the court’s interrogation of defendant was adequate.

Motion to affirm is granted.