State v. Zumwalt

MR JUSTICE DAVIS:

On July 1, 1952, the district court for Missoula County, Honorable C. E. Comer, Judge, sentenced the relator Zumwalt to seven years in the Montana State Prison upon his plea of guilty to an information, which assumed at least to charge the crime of “Passing a False and Worthless Check,” a felony. Subsequently a hearing, -which began on January 6, 1953, or thereabouts, and continued intermittently for some two weeks, was bad in the district court upon a proceeding initiated by Znm*531wait in the nature of the common law writ of error coram nobis to inquire into certain errors…