State v. La Marr

This is an appeal from an order granting a petition for writ of error coram nobis and ordering a new trial. In State ex rel. Fairchild v. Criminal Court of Marion County (1952), 230 Ind. 307, 103 N. E. 2d 352, we prohibited the trial court from proceeding to retry appellee on the original charge until we decided this appeal.

On December 20, 1946, the grand jury returned an indictment charging appellee with voluntary man slaughter in that appellee did unlawfully drive an automobile at an unlawful rate of speed and as a proximate result did drive said automobile against an automobile being…