Case Name: PEOPLE v. PORCHIA
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1970-01-29
Citations: 21 Mich. App. 222
Docket Number: Docket No. 7,281
Parties: PEOPLE v. PORCHIA
Judges: Before: Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Gillis and Quinn, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 21
Pages: 222–223

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. PORCHIA
Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Examination—Inquiries.
Noneomplianee with statute and eourt rule requiring that the trial court examine a defendant to establish the erime and his participation in it before accepting a plea of guilty constitutes reversible error (GCR 1963, 785.3; MCLA § 768.35).
Reference foe Points in Headnote
21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law § 486 et seq.
Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, John P. Scallen, J.
Submitted Division 1 January 5, 1970, at Detroit.
(Docket No. 7,281.)
Decided January 29, 1970.
Carmelo Porchia was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of incest. Defendant appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Arthur N. Bishop, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
John F. Foley, for defendant on appeal.
Before: Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Gillis and Quinn, JJ.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
By leave granted, defendant appeals Ms conviction and sentence for incest, MCLA § 750-.333 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.565). He was convicted on Ms plea of guilty, February 11, 1964. His appeal attacks the plea-taking procedure on several grounds, but we note only one because it mandates reversal.
Neither the plea transcript nor the sentencing transcript contains any questioning of defendant to establish the crime and his participation therein., GCR 1963, 785.3, and - MCLA § 768.35 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.1058) require such questioning; and failure to do so is reversible error. People v. Barrows (1959), 358 Mich 267.
Reversed and remanded for such further proceedings as may be required.