Phillips v. State

CATES, Judge.

Appeal from denial of coram nobis after hearing at nisi prius.

The writ was sought in the circuit court to vacate a judgment wherein Phillips was convicted May 14, 1952, of robbing Irving W. Stern (manager of Robert Hall Clothing Co.). The jury set Phillips’s sentence at eighteen years in the penitentiary. His counsel at that jxial died before the bringing of coram nobis.

The principal averment was that (1) “the arresting officers did not have a single bit of evidence that the petitioner had committed a crime,” and (2) the “only evidence of guilt * * * was obtained without * * a…