#### STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. BERNADETTE PATRICIA MEANS

No. 7318SC464

(Filed 25 July 1973)

Appeal by. defendant from Lupton, Judge, 29 January 1973 Regular Criminal Session of Superior'Court.held in Guilford County, Greensboro Division.

*116Defendant was charged in a bill of indictment proper in form with (1) forgery and (2) uttering a forged bank check. When the cases were called for trial, the State took a nol pros with leave as to the forgery count and defendant tendered a plea of guilty to the uttering count. After an examination of defendant and determining that the plea of guilty was freely, understandingly and voluntarily made, without undue influence, compulsion or duress, and without promise of leniency, the court accepted the plea. Following the hearing of evidence, the court entered judgment sentencing defendant to prison for a period of six months with an order to the Department of Correction that defendant be given treatment for drug addiction.

Defendant appealed.

Attorney General Robert Morgan by Lester V. Chalmers, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Vaiden P. Kendrick, Assistant Public Defender, attorney for defendant appellant. '

BRITT, Judge.

Defendant’s counsel candidly admits that he can find no error to assign but asks this court to review the record. This we have done and find the record to be free from prejudicial error.

The judgment appealed from is

Affirmed.

Judges Hedrick and Vaughn concur.-