People v. Brady

Opinion

GARGANO, J.

In October 1971, petitioner moved the Superior Court of Stanislaus County to set aside three judgments of conviction entered in that court. His motion, entitled “Motion to vacate and Set Aside Judgment and/or Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis,” was denied; the judgments petitioner was seeking to set aside had been affirmed on appeal, and the court below was without jurisdiction to act. (Pen. Code, § 1265.) Petitioner appealed, and we have treated the appeal as an original proceeding in this court for a writ of error coram vobis; the writ of coram vobis is essentially…