Carlton v. State

RODGERS, Presiding Justice:

The appeal in this case is from the final order of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Mississippi, denying a new trial upon a petition for a writ of error coram nobis dated April 7, 1971. The appellant’s suspended sentence was revoked on January 12, 1971, because he “committed the crime of possession of LSD and marijuana in Forrest County, Mississippi.”

The petition for the writ of error coram nobis alleges that the petitioner pleaded guilty to the charge of grand larceny in 1968 and was sentenced to serve a term of three years in the State Penitentiary, and that the…