Sullivan v. State

ADAMS, J.:

George L. Sullivan has filed his petition for leave to apply for writ of error coram nobis. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The judgment was affirmed by us at this term. Now he shows that one of the petit jurors who sat on the panel that convicted him was a deputy sheriff. That the deputy sheriff qualified under oath when he was interrogated by stating that he held no office or commission under the United States or the State of Florida, and defendant did not learn differently until it was too late to raise the question by motion for a new trial or appeal.

Assuming…