Asbell v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J. :

This was an application for a writ of error coram nobis. The applicant, Marion Asbell, was charged with the felonious killing of his wife and convicted of murder in the first degree. He appealed to this court, where, after a full examination of numerous assignments of error, the judgment of conviction was affirmed. (The State v. Asbell, 57 Kan. 898, 46 Pac. 770.) Afterward he attempted to bring a proceeding in the district court against the state to obtain a new trial, but it was held that the state, being a sovereign power, could not be…