Pace v. State

ON REHEARING

BOWEN, Judge.

In 1970 Pace’s appeal of his conviction for robbery was dismissed when he escaped from the penitentiary pending his appeal. Pace v. State, 45 Ala.App. 390, 231 So.2d 166 (1970). Three years later Pace filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis claiming that he was imprisoned in the city jail of Scottsboro, Alabama, on June 29, 1968, at which time the alleged robbery occurred for which he stands convicted. The trial court dismissed this petition on motion of the State without a hearing. On appeal from that dismissal, this court reversed and remanded finding that…