Commonwealth ex rel. Rogers v. Hendricks

Griffiths, J.,

This matter comes before the court on relator’s amended petition for a writ of coram nobis.

On October 2, 1956, Judge Carroll, sitting without a jury, found relator guilty on two bills of indictment, nos. 384 and 385, May sessions, 1956, charging him *40with the sale and possession of narcotic drugs, and sentenced him to the county prison for a term of five years on each bill, the sentences to run concurrently.

On January 3, 1958, relator filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and subsequently, at a hearing before the undersigned, the court, at the request of relator’s counsel,…