Thornburg v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Cecil J. Thornburg, was, on February 12, 1962, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Clay County, Alabama, of the offense of manufacturing prohibited liquors or beverages.

On August 23, 1962, appellant filed his petition in the Circuit Court of Clay County, for writ of error coram nobis. The ground of the petition insisted upon is that under the evidence the defendant would have been entitled to the general affirmative charge as to the distilling count of the indictment, provided it had been requested on the trial, because the evidence tended to show…