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Aderholt v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Jun 27, 1972
48 Ala. App. 275 (Ala. Crim. App. 1972)

Opinion

8 Div. 220.

June 27, 1972.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Franklin County, Kennedy Williams, J.


The three-count indictment charged embezzlement, grand larceny, and false pretense. Appellant plead guilty to embezzlement, accompanied by counsel, and judgment set sentence at one year and one day imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The record is devoid of any colloquy between the trial judge and the appellant to show compliance with Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274. While the minute entry does show that the questions and answers given and asked, at the time of taking the plea, were taken down by the court reporter in shorthand and filed in the Circuit Court, such are not in the record in this Court. Boykin, supra, requires this Court to review this colloquy in its entirety whether the appellant is indigent, or otherwise.

On authority of Honeycutt v. Alabama, 47 Ala. App. 640, 259 So.2d 846, and Walcott v. State, Alabama Supreme Court, 263 So.2d 178 (1972), the judgment below must be reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

CATES, P. J., and ALMON and HARRIS, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Aderholt v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Jun 27, 1972
48 Ala. App. 275 (Ala. Crim. App. 1972)
Case details for

Aderholt v. State

Case Details

Full title:Vernon ADERHOLT v. STATE

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Date published: Jun 27, 1972

Citations

48 Ala. App. 275 (Ala. Crim. App. 1972)
264 So. 2d 197

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