People v. Snelling

This is a motion in the nature of a writ of error coram nobis.

The record discloses that on January 6, 1955, in a one count indictment, the defendant was charged with the crime of murder in the first degree in that “ the defendant in the County of New York, on or about December 20, 1954, wilfully, feloniously and of malice aforethought, struck and killed Mary Joyce with a blunt instrument ”. On January 12, 1955, when the defendant was arraigned, the late Judge Schurman appointed John McKim Minton, Rudolph Stand and Matthew Brandenburg as defendant’s counsel, and on the same date, the…