Hopkins v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

Appellant filed a pro se petition for writ of error coram nobis in the Circuit Court of Madison County, containing nine separate grounds, seeking to overturn a 1971 conviction for robbery in which he was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Upon the filing of this petition the judge who presided at the robbery trial appointed counsel to represent him, and set a date to hear the petition.

Appointed counsel filed a supplemental petition to the pro se petition in which he alleged the following errors in the original trial:

1. Failure of the trial court to keep the jury…