Crockett v. United States

Although the petition lacks craftsmanship and is incorrectly labeled “A Motion To Correct A Judgment” there is no mistaking the petitioner’s intention. He alleges many times that the judgment upon which he was committed to the penitentiary is void and I think that question was before the trial court. The only correction possible for a void judgment in a criminal case is to set it aside.

Whether the petition is in effect a petition for the issuance of the writ of Plabeas Corpus or for the writ of coram *549nobis is not of first importance notwithstanding the former is in the nature of a civil…