Swicegood v. State

CATES, Judge.

An indigent prisoner appeals from a judgment of partial relief granted in a coram nobis proceeding. Swicegood’s petition attacked (a) the plea of guilty as corruptly in■duced and (b) the sentence as being passed while he was without counsel. The result of this postconviction review was that the •circuit court resentenced Swicegood to a shorter prison term than had previously been meted out to him.

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Original Trial

The chronology shown by this record is as follows:

1. Indictment, January Term, 1962, on a charge of false pretense, i. e., Swicegood gave a worthless check .for an…