Walsh v. Tuggle, Warden

Opinion op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Criminal Division of the Jefferson Circuit Court dismissing appellant’s petition for a writ of error coram nobis. Appellant is confined in the Kentucky State Penitentiary under sentence of twenty years, which he received upon his trial on a charge of rape committed upon one Clara Dale. The judgment of conviction was entered October 25, 1944, and was affirmed by this Court in October, 1945. Walsh v. Commonwealth, 300 Ky. 545, 189 S. W. 2d 840.

A writ of error coram nobis is a common law writ whereby…