Houston v. State

The plaintiff in error urges only two grounds for the granting of his petition for writ of coram nobis: (1) That his counsel “conspired, conjured, and wil-fully betrayed all rights of your petitioner, before, during, and after the trial;” and (2) that Elizabeth Welbes, whom he assumed should have been a codefendant, testified under compulsion, coercion, and intimidation for the prosecution for the state resulting in perjured testimony and his ultimate conviction.

The writ of error coram nobis, also known as the writ of coram nobis, is an ancient common-law writ seldom used in the early…