Case Name: PEOPLE v. MILLER
Court: Michigan Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1971-01-28
Citations: 30 Mich. App. 254
Docket Number: Docket No. 10063
Parties: PEOPLE v. MILLER
Judges: Before: Danhof, P. J., and McGregor and Quinn, JJ.
Reporter: Michigan appeals reports; cases decided in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Volume: 30
Pages: 254–255

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. MILLER
Criminal Law — Appeal and Error — Plea op Guilty — Motion to Withdraw Plea — Record.
An appellate court is unable to review the defendant’s claim that his plea was involuntarily given when no motion to withdraw the plea was made in the trial court, because the record which the hearing on the motion to withdraw would have produced is not available; although the defendant’s conviction was affirmed because the defendant’s claim of error was not substantial, the defendant may file a motion in the trial court to withdraw his plea of guilty.
Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Robert J. Colombo, J.
Submitted Division 1 December 22, 1970, at Lansing.
(Docket No. 10063.)
Decided January 28, 1971.
John Clifton Miller was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of larceny from a person. Defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Arthur N. Rishop, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
George Stone, for defendant on appeal.
Before: Danhof, P. J., and McGregor and Quinn, JJ.
References for Points in Headnote
5 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 545 et seq.
21 Am Jur 2d, Criminal Law §§ 504-506.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Defendant appeals from his conviction upon a plea of guilty to the offense of larceny from a person. He was originally charged with robbery unarmed, but before his offer of a plea of guilty, a count was added to the information to charge larceny from a person. He now contends, first, that the trial court erred in accepting his guilty plea without first remanding to the magistrate so that a new complaint and warrant on the lesser charge could be issued and preliminary examination had thereon. Second, he claims that his plea was involuntarily given because the bargain made with the prosecutor called for his entry of a plea of guilty to the offense of attempted robbery unarmed carrying a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment instead of larceny from a person carrying a ten-year maximum. The appellee has filed a motion to affirm the conviction, GrCR 1963, 817.5(3).
It is manifest that the first error claimed is so unsubstantial as to require no argument or formal submission. With regard to the second error, we note that no motion to withdraw the plea was made in the trial court. During the plea proceedings, defendant affirmatively indicated his desire to plead guilty to the charge of larceny from a person. Without the record which a motion to withdraw the plea would have provided, it is impossible for us to review defendant's claim of an unfulfilled bargain. In re Valle (1961), 364 Mich 471.
Motion to affirm the conviction is granted without prejudice to the defendant to file such a motion in Detroit recorder's court.
MCLA § 750.357 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.589).
MCLA § 750.530 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.798).
MCLA § 750.92 (Stat Ann 1962 Rev § 28.287).
Involuntariness of the guilty plea may not be raised for the first time on a direct appeal of a judgment of eonvietion. People v. Barron (1970), 27 Mich App 379; People v. Dorner (1970), 24 Mich App 306; People v. Kenny Smith (1969), 20 Mich App 307.