Harwood v. State
Harwood v. State
Opinion of the Court
We have before us an appeal from a judgment entered on a guilty plea to two counts, one charging possession of marijuana in a quantity constituting a felony and the other charging possession of narcotics paraphernalia. Harwood negotiated a plea of guilty to both charges with the understanding that he would not be sentenced to more than five years. We affirm on the record before us because there is no showing that the plea was not intelligently and voluntarily entered. There is however a matter of concern which Har-wood is at liberty to raise by petition filed under CrPR. 3.850, 33 F.S.A., if his plea was based on erroneous information. The trial judge stated, during a patiently conducted colloquy, that “there could be a maximum of ten years on this charge.” If these charges were independent and cumulatively punishable, this would be a correct statement of the possible maximum sentence to which Harwood was subjected. On the other hand, it is possible that these charges are such intertwined aspects of the same transaction that they are punishable by only one sentence for the graver of
Affirmed.
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