State Ex Rel. Minton v. Parke Circuit Court

This is an original action for an alternate writ of mandate to the Parke Circuit Court. Petitioner seeks to require the trial court to hear petitioner’s petition for a writ of error coram nobis filed in the trial court October 30, 1947.

This matter presents another of the too frequent instances of a lay inmate of the Indiana State Prison trying to invoke the jurisdiction of this court without benefit of counsel. There is no excuse for prisoners without sufficient funds to employ their own counsel failing to comply with required formalities in presenting original actions to this court. The…