Brown v. State

This is an appeal from the action of the Circuit Court of Russell County granting the State's motion to dismiss appellant's petition for a writ of error coram nobis.

The appellant here, petitioner below, had heretofore been convicted in the Circuit Court of Russell County of the offense of sodomy and sentenced to a term of six years in the penitentiary. From that conviction he perfected his appeal to this court. The judgment in the sodomy case was affirmed by this court on 8 May 1945, but on 21 May 1945, the judgment of affirmance was set aside and the cause restored to the docket where it is…