People v. Lesser

In the present coram nobis proceeding, initially instituted in December, 1943, defendant attacks his judgment of conviction entered in 1932 upon the ground that the verdict of the jury was obtained by fraud on the part of the prosecuting official; an,d it is now suggested that defendant was also denied a constitutional right of confrontation of witnesses upon a motion for a new trial made upon the ground of newly discovered evidence. After extensive hearings held in open court, his application for coram nobis originally denied by Mullept, J., on June 28, 1944, was again denied by the same…