People v. Glass

The defendant moves by writ of error, coram nobis, to set aside a judgment of the court rendered September 22, 1937, convicting him of bigamy upon his plea of guilty entered July 27,1937.

The stated grounds of his application are that at the time of his conviction there was no previous validly subsisting marriage upon which the crime of bigamy could be predicated, and that this fact though known to the probation officer was not known to him.

The District Attorney in opposing the application argues that the defendant’s plea forecloses inquiry into the question of his guilt, that the defendant…