Wallace v. Commonwealth

SANDIDGE, Judge.

Appellant is an inmate of the Eddyville Reformatory, having been convicted in the Rowan Circuit Court in June, 1957, of the crime of rape and sentenced to confinement for life without privilege of parole. There was no appeal from the judgment.

Nearly a year after his confinement, appellant filed a complaint in the lower court for a writ of error coram nobis. It was dismissed, on the Commonwealth’s motion, for failure to state facts upon which the extraordinary relief sought could be granted. This appeal is from the judgment of dismissal.

Writs of coram nobis have been expressly…