Hawks v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Howard County dismissing a petition for a writ of error coram nobis, filed in that court by the appellant.

The record discloses that the defendant, with others, was indicted for breaking in a storehouse. The indictment contained three counts. He was arraigned on December lJth, 1930. On the same day, the State abandoned the second and third counts and the defendant pleaded guilty to the first; whereupon he was sentenced to. St. Mary’s Industrial School until he arrived at the age of twenty-one years. On December 22nd, 1930, his sentence…