State Ex Rel. Howard v. Hamilton Circuit Court

One Stephenson was convicted of murder in the second degree in the Hamilton Circuit Court in 1925 and was committed to the Indiana State Prison to serve a sentence of life imprisonment. In November, 1944, he filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in the Hamilton Circuit Court and the warden of the State Prison was ordered by the judge of that court to deliver to the sheriff of Hamilton County the person of said Stephenson for the purpose of bringing him to Hamilton County for hearing on his coram nobis petition.

Thereafter such proceedings were had in the coram nobis action that a…