State v. Gee

CALLISTER, Chief Justice:

Defendant appeals from an order of the district court denying his petition for a writ of coram nobis. Defendant was convicted of the crime of first-degree murder; his conviction was affirmed .by this court in State v. Gee.1 Subsequently, defendant petitioned for a writ of coram nobis, whereupon a hearing was held, and the petition denied. At the hearing, evidence was adduced which indicated that during the course of the trial, while one of the jurors was in the women’s restroom, an unidentified woman displayed a photograph, purporting to show the decedent in his…