Ex Parte v. Merkes

CATES, Judge.

On February 3, 1967, Merkes filed here a petition to get us to make the Baldwin Circuit Court hear Merkes on a “petition for a correction or modification of the judgment rendered in Circuit Court Case No. 4147, as filed on date of May 20, 1966.”

Merkes says that March 24, 1965, he was sent to the penitentiary for fourteen years for robbery. September 7, 1965, the court on coram nobis undid the March judgment because a jury had not set the punishment.

On September 27, 1965, he was again tried and convicted. This time he was given eleven years. Nothing is said about his not having a…