Spears v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted by Roosevelt Spears from the judgment of the Campbell Circuit 'Court denying him a writ of coram nobis. Spears assigns two errors for reversal: (1) The counsel the trial court appointed to defend him on an indictment charging murder was so inexperienced as to amount to no representation at all in that action; (2) the inexperience of his attorney did not appear in the record of the circuit court, therefore this court could not consider it on appeal from the judgment sentencing Spears to death for murder but such inexperience abundantly appears in the…