Lay v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court denying relief under coram nobis.

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree. On arraignment defendant entered a plea of not guilty. On the *535■date set for trial an agreement was entered into between the solicitor, the defendant and defendant’s employed counsel that defendant would plead guilty to a charge of .second degree murder with a recommendation to the jury of a ten-year sentence.

By agreement of all the parties the indictment was amended by adding count 2 charging murder in the second degree. A jury…