State Ex Rel. Spires v. Bottorff, Judge

The proceeding before us was begun by a letter addressed to this court by relator, who is confined in the Indiana State Prison. It seems that he has proceeded without aid of counsel. We have treated the letter as a petition and the proceeding as an original action to mandate the respondent court to hear his petition for writ of error coram nobis alleged to have been filed by petitioner in the Clark Circuit Court, and have ordered it docketed as appears in the title to this opinion.

A copy of the petition for writ of error coram nobis filed in respondent court, and alleged to have been ignored…